How To Install git-daemon on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install git-daemon on CentOS 8.
What is git-daemon
The git daemon for supporting git
We can use yum or dnf to install git-daemon on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install git-daemon.
Install git-daemon 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 git-daemon using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install git-daemon
Install git-daemon 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 git-daemon using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install git-daemon
How To Uninstall git-daemon on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the git-daemon package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove git-daemon
git-daemon Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c6
/usr/lib/.build-id/c6/d089a5d63238f877b9cd73effcc7f497d208ae
/usr/lib/systemd/system/git.socket
/usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]
/usr/libexec/git-core/git-daemon
/usr/share/doc/git/git-daemon.html
/usr/share/doc/git/git-daemon.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/git-daemon.1.gz
/var/lib/git
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install git-daemon on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.