How To Install transmission-cli on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install transmission-cli on Rocky Linux 8. transmission-cli is Transmission command line implementation

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install transmission-cli on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `transmission-cli`

Command line version of Transmission BitTorrent client.

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

Install transmission-cli 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 transmission-cli using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install transmission-cli

Install transmission-cli 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 transmission-cli using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install transmission-cli

How To Uninstall transmission-cli on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the transmission-cli package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove transmission-cli

transmission-cli Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/transmission-cli
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/44
/usr/lib/.build-id/44/674054b0e15c9ce14d22daf4b2a2ab92e68f40
/usr/share/man/man1/transmission-cli.1.gz

References

transmission-cli website

Summary

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