How To Install bacula-console on CentOS 8

bacula-console is Bacula management console

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bacula-console on CentOS 8.

What is bacula-console

Bacula is a set of programs that allow you to manage the backup, recovery, and verification of computer data across a network of different computers. It is based on a client/server architecture. This package contains the command-line management console for the bacula backup system.

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

Install bacula-console 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 bacula-console using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install bacula-console

Install bacula-console 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 bacula-console using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install bacula-console

How To Uninstall bacula-console on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the bacula-console package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove bacula-console

bacula-console Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/bacula/bconsole.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/cb
/usr/lib/.build-id/cb/50c05e1cd1dbd4b5f281dce48f7ea45714dd96
/usr/lib/.build-id/db
/usr/lib/.build-id/db/b26441d40758fe81f73f500a792a5e98153f2a
/usr/sbin/bbconsjson
/usr/sbin/bconsole
/usr/share/man/man8/bconsole.8.gz

References

Summary

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