How To Install freeradius-client on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install freeradius-client on CentOS 8.
What is freeradius-client
FreeRADIUS Client is a library for writing RADIUS Clients. The library lets you develop a RADIUS-aware application in less than 50 lines of C code.
We can use yum or dnf to install freeradius-client on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install freeradius-client.
Install freeradius-client 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 freeradius-client using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install freeradius-client
Install freeradius-client 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 freeradius-client using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install freeradius-client
How To Uninstall freeradius-client on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the freeradius-client package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove freeradius-client
freeradius-client Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/radiusclient
/etc/radiusclient/dictionary
/etc/radiusclient/issue
/etc/radiusclient/port-id-map
/etc/radiusclient/radiusclient.conf
/etc/radiusclient/servers
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/84
/usr/lib/.build-id/84/fb5f92f016876ed03e11158c48a4e099030e02
/usr/lib64/libfreeradius-client.so.2
/usr/lib64/libfreeradius-client.so.2.0.0
/usr/share/doc/freeradius-client
/usr/share/doc/freeradius-client/BUGS
/usr/share/doc/freeradius-client/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/freeradius-client/README.radexample
/usr/share/doc/freeradius-client/README.rst
/usr/share/licenses/freeradius-client
/usr/share/licenses/freeradius-client/COPYRIGHT
/usr/share/licenses/freeradius-client/PACKAGE-LICENSING
/usr/share/radiusclient
/usr/share/radiusclient/dictionary
/usr/share/radiusclient/dictionary.ascend
/usr/share/radiusclient/dictionary.compat
/usr/share/radiusclient/dictionary.merit
/usr/share/radiusclient/dictionary.sip
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install freeradius-client on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.