How To Install bdii on CentOS 8

bdii is The Berkeley Database Information Index (BDII)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bdii on CentOS 8.

What is bdii

The Berkeley Database Information Index (BDII) consists of a standard LDAP database which is updated by an external process. The update process obtains LDIF from a number of sources and merges them. It then compares this to the contents of the database and creates an LDIF file of the differences. This is then used to update the database.

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

Install bdii 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 bdii using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install bdii

Install bdii 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 bdii using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install bdii

How To Uninstall bdii on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove bdii

bdii Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/bdii
/etc/bdii/BDII.schema
/etc/bdii/DB_CONFIG
/etc/bdii/DB_CONFIG_top
/etc/bdii/bdii-slapd.conf
/etc/bdii/bdii-top-slapd.conf
/etc/bdii/bdii.conf
/etc/logrotate.d/bdii
/etc/sysconfig/bdii
/usr/lib/systemd/system/bdii-slapd.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/bdii.service
/usr/sbin/bdii-update
/usr/share/bdii
/usr/share/bdii/bdii-slapd-start
/usr/share/doc/bdii
/usr/share/doc/bdii/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/bdii/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/bdii
/usr/share/licenses/bdii/COPYRIGHT
/usr/share/licenses/bdii/LICENSE.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/bdii-update.1.gz
/var/lib/bdii
/var/lib/bdii/gip
/var/lib/bdii/gip/ldif
/var/lib/bdii/gip/ldif/default.ldif
/var/lib/bdii/gip/plugin
/var/lib/bdii/gip/provider
/var/log/bdii

References

Summary

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