How To Install adcli on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install adcli on Rocky Linux 8. adcli is Active Directory enrollment

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install adcli on Rocky Linux 8.

What is adcli

adcli is a tool for joining an Active Directory domain using standard LDAP and Kerberos calls.

We can use yum or dnf to install adcli on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install adcli.

Install adcli on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install adcli

Install adcli on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install adcli using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install adcli

How To Uninstall adcli on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the adcli package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove adcli

adcli Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5b
/usr/lib/.build-id/5b/a591ace7a162bd9c9f1099fbfd2e764234cec3
/usr/sbin/adcli
/usr/share/doc/adcli
/usr/share/doc/adcli/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/adcli/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/adcli/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/adcli/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/adcli/README
/usr/share/man/man8/adcli.8.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install adcli on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.