How To Install yadifa-tools on CentOS 8

yadifa-tools is Remote management client for YADIFA DNS server

Introduction

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

What is yadifa-tools

Contains utility for YADIFA DNS server remote management

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

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

sudo dnf -y install yadifa-tools

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

sudo yum -y install yadifa-tools

How To Uninstall yadifa-tools on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove yadifa-tools

yadifa-tools Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/yadifa
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/64
/usr/lib/.build-id/64/dcd442f60e9da8496a1bb04d0d9d86cab115ea
/usr/share/bash-completion
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/yadifa
/usr/share/doc/yadifa-tools
/usr/share/doc/yadifa-tools/AUTHORS
/usr/share/licenses/yadifa-tools
/usr/share/licenses/yadifa-tools/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/yadifa.8.gz

References

Summary

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