How To Install conserver-client on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install conserver-client on Rocky Linux 8. conserver-client is Serial console client

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install conserver-client on Rocky Linux 8.

What is conserver-client

This is the client package needed to interact with a Conserver daemon.

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

Install conserver-client 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 conserver-client using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install conserver-client

Install conserver-client 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 conserver-client using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install conserver-client

How To Uninstall conserver-client on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the conserver-client package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove conserver-client

conserver-client Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/console
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6b
/usr/lib/.build-id/6b/76be591a8f6eba9c38ebc80780022c6b40ba9b
/usr/share/doc/conserver-client
/usr/share/doc/conserver-client/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/console.1.gz

References

Summary

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