How To Install git-daemon on CentOS 8

git-daemon is Git protocol daemon

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install git-daemon on CentOS 8.

What is git-daemon

The git daemon for supporting git

We can use yum or dnf to install git-daemon on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install git-daemon.

Install git-daemon on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install git-daemon using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install git-daemon

Install git-daemon on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install git-daemon using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install git-daemon

How To Uninstall git-daemon on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the git-daemon package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove git-daemon

git-daemon Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c6
/usr/lib/.build-id/c6/d089a5d63238f877b9cd73effcc7f497d208ae
/usr/lib/systemd/system/git.socket
/usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]
/usr/libexec/git-core/git-daemon
/usr/share/doc/git/git-daemon.html
/usr/share/doc/git/git-daemon.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/git-daemon.1.gz
/var/lib/git

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install git-daemon on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.