How To Install fusioninventory-agent-task-network on CentOS 8

fusioninventory-agent-task-network is NetDiscovery and NetInventory task for FusionInventory

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fusioninventory-agent-task-network on CentOS 8.

What is fusioninventory-agent-task-network

fusioninventory-task-netdiscovery and fusioninventory-task-netinventory

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

Install fusioninventory-agent-task-network 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 fusioninventory-agent-task-network using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fusioninventory-agent-task-network

Install fusioninventory-agent-task-network 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 fusioninventory-agent-task-network using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fusioninventory-agent-task-network

How To Uninstall fusioninventory-agent-task-network on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the fusioninventory-agent-task-network package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove fusioninventory-agent-task-network

fusioninventory-agent-task-network Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/fusioninventory-netdiscovery
/usr/bin/fusioninventory-netinventory
/usr/share/fusioninventory/lib/FusionInventory/Agent/Task/NetDiscovery.pm
/usr/share/fusioninventory/lib/FusionInventory/Agent/Task/NetInventory.pm
/usr/share/man/man1/fusioninventory-netdiscovery.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/fusioninventory-netinventory.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fusioninventory-agent-task-network on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.