How To Install conman on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install conman on CentOS 8.
What is conman
ConMan is a serial console management program designed to support a large number of console devices and simultaneous users. It currently supports local serial devices and remote terminal servers (via the telnet protocol). Its features include - mapping symbolic names to console devices - logging all output from a console device to file - supporting monitor (R/O), interactive (R/W), and broadcast (W/O) modes of console access - allowing clients to join or steal console “write” privileges - executing Expect scripts across multiple consoles in parallel
We can use yum or dnf to install conman on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install conman.
Install conman 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 conman using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install conman
Install conman 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 conman using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install conman
How To Uninstall conman on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the conman package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove conman
conman Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/conman.conf
/etc/logrotate.d/conman
/usr/bin/conman
/usr/bin/conmen
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/62
/usr/lib/.build-id/62/bb2a51cf056db7ecee7e222a9debc778af2ff0
/usr/lib/.build-id/f4
/usr/lib/.build-id/f4/079de6e2216dd8b04730515ce9e0c1216bde03
/usr/lib/systemd/system/conman.service
/usr/sbin/conmand
/usr/share/conman
/usr/share/conman/alpha.exp
/usr/share/conman/conman.exp
/usr/share/conman/exec
/usr/share/conman/exec/README
/usr/share/conman/exec/cyclades-ssh.exp
/usr/share/conman/exec/cyclades-telnet.exp
/usr/share/conman/exec/hp-ilo.exp
/usr/share/conman/exec/hp-lo100.exp
/usr/share/conman/exec/ibm-bc.exp
/usr/share/conman/exec/ipmiconsole.exp
/usr/share/conman/exec/ipmitool.exp
/usr/share/conman/exec/ssh.exp
/usr/share/conman/exec/sun-elom.exp
/usr/share/conman/exec/sun-ilom.exp
/usr/share/conman/exec/sun-v20z-v40z.exp
/usr/share/doc/conman
/usr/share/doc/conman/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/conman/FAQ
/usr/share/doc/conman/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/conman/examples
/usr/share/doc/conman/examples/README
/usr/share/doc/conman/examples/boot_alpha.exp
/usr/share/doc/conman/examples/mac.exp
/usr/share/doc/conman/examples/rmc.exp
/usr/share/doc/conman/examples/shell_cmd_1.exp
/usr/share/doc/conman/examples/shell_cmd_n.exp
/usr/share/doc/conman/examples/srm.exp
/usr/share/doc/conman/examples/wtf.exp
/usr/share/licenses/conman
/usr/share/licenses/conman/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/conman.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/conman.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/conmand.8.gz
/var/log/conman
/var/log/conman.old
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install conman on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
