How To Install erlang-tftp on CentOS 8

erlang-tftp is TFTP client

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install erlang-tftp on CentOS 8.

What is erlang-tftp

TFTP client.

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

Install erlang-tftp 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 erlang-tftp using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install erlang-tftp

Install erlang-tftp 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 erlang-tftp using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install erlang-tftp

How To Uninstall erlang-tftp on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the erlang-tftp package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove erlang-tftp

erlang-tftp Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/tftp-1.0.1
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/tftp-1.0.1/ebin
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/tftp-1.0.1/ebin/tftp.app
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/tftp-1.0.1/ebin/tftp.appup
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/tftp-1.0.1/ebin/tftp.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/tftp-1.0.1/ebin/tftp_app.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/tftp-1.0.1/ebin/tftp_binary.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/tftp-1.0.1/ebin/tftp_engine.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/tftp-1.0.1/ebin/tftp_file.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/tftp-1.0.1/ebin/tftp_lib.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/tftp-1.0.1/ebin/tftp_logger.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/tftp-1.0.1/ebin/tftp_sup.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/tftp-1.0.1/src
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/tftp-1.0.1/src/tftp.hrl

References

Summary

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