How To Install centos-release-samba411 on CentOS 8

centos-release-samba411 is Samba 4.11 packages from the CentOS Storage SIG repository

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install centos-release-samba411 on CentOS 8.

What is centos-release-samba411

yum configuration for Samba 4.11 packages from the CentOS Storage SIG. For more details about the release and maintenance schedule, see https

We can use yum or dnf to install centos-release-samba411 on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install centos-release-samba411.

Install centos-release-samba411 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 centos-release-samba411 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install centos-release-samba411

Install centos-release-samba411 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 centos-release-samba411 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install centos-release-samba411

How To Uninstall centos-release-samba411 on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the centos-release-samba411 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove centos-release-samba411

centos-release-samba411 Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Samba-411.repo

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install centos-release-samba411 on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.