How Tolinuxupdate

Linux How To – Install BSD’s EasyEditor on CentOS 7

Easy Editor (ee) is one of my favourite built-in utilities from FreeBSD. It’s my preferred text editor (vs vi, vim, nano, pico etc). Thankfully it is easy enough to install it on CentOS 6 and 7 (tested on 2018.03.18).

1 – Prerequisites

Firstly, you’ll need to install some prerequisites:

yum install libX11 libXdmcp

This command should install a total of 4 things.

2 – Fetch the .rpm installer

wget https://www.gadgethow2.com/downloads/easyedit-1.5.0-2.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm

3 – Install it

rpm -Uhv easyedit-1.5.0-2.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm

If there are any missing dependencies, try running “yum install …” (replace “…” with the names of the missing dependencies).

Jonathan Procter

Linux, Unix, and Windows server sysadmin.

Related Articles

Back to top button