How To Install distcc-server on CentOS 8

distcc-server is Server for distributed C/C++ compilation

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install distcc-server on CentOS 8.

What is distcc-server

This package contains the compilation server needed to use distcc.

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

Install distcc-server 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 distcc-server using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install distcc-server

Install distcc-server 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 distcc-server using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install distcc-server

How To Uninstall distcc-server on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the distcc-server package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove distcc-server

distcc-server Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/default/distcc
/etc/distcc/clients.allow
/etc/distcc/commands.allow.sh
/etc/sysconfig/distccd
/usr/bin/distccd
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/17/7d4addae72f2ec3aed42639ea859df93a9c789
/usr/lib/distcc
/usr/lib/gcc-cross
/usr/lib/systemd/system/distccd.service
/usr/lib64/distcc
/usr/sbin/update-distcc-symlinks
/usr/share/doc/distcc-server
/usr/share/doc/distcc-server/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/distcc-server/README
/usr/share/man/man1/distccd.1.gz

References

Summary

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