How To Install guacd on CentOS 8

guacd is Proxy daemon for Guacamole

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install guacd on CentOS 8.

What is `guacd`

guacd is the Guacamole proxy daemon used by the Guacamole web application and framework to translate between arbitrary protocols and the Guacamole protocol.

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

Install guacd 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 guacd using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install guacd

Install guacd 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 guacd using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install guacd

How To Uninstall guacd on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the guacd package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove guacd

guacd Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/guaclog
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/3e
/usr/lib/.build-id/3e/e759b80f5abbc07c3679dceecff1ac894ed7c5
/usr/lib/.build-id/91
/usr/lib/.build-id/91/f57b7dd8fe783d0e97971609cdf4c6f06077f1
/usr/lib/systemd/system/guacd.service
/usr/sbin/guacd
/usr/share/man/man1/guaclog.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/guacd.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/guacd.8.gz
/var/lib/guacd

References

guacd website

Summary

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