How To Install tdb-tools on CentOS 8

tdb-tools is Developer tools for the Tdb library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tdb-tools on CentOS 8.

What is tdb-tools

Tools to manage Tdb files

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

Install tdb-tools 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 tdb-tools using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install tdb-tools

Install tdb-tools 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 tdb-tools using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install tdb-tools

How To Uninstall tdb-tools on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the tdb-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove tdb-tools

tdb-tools Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/tdbbackup
/usr/bin/tdbdump
/usr/bin/tdbrestore
/usr/bin/tdbtool
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/59
/usr/lib/.build-id/59/88a425e2441e574475dc5dae5aa42659bb9d68
/usr/lib/.build-id/5c
/usr/lib/.build-id/5c/83c32afd23c3221e8dc691b935871b512713c8
/usr/lib/.build-id/8d
/usr/lib/.build-id/8d/fba9fe081860206237990a35d0d0f65886c010
/usr/lib/.build-id/c1
/usr/lib/.build-id/c1/bdb20a42ed8ebd3cb4dfbb1648b0990c362b82
/usr/share/man/man8/tdbbackup.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/tdbdump.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/tdbrestore.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/tdbtool.8.gz

References

Summary

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