How To Install mosh on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mosh on CentOS 8.
What is mosh
Mosh is a remote terminal application that supports - intermittent network connectivity, - roaming to different IP address without dropping the connection, and - intelligent local echo and line editing to reduce the effects of “network lag” on high-latency connections.
We can use yum or dnf to install mosh on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mosh.
Install mosh 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 mosh using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install mosh
Install mosh 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 mosh using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install mosh
How To Uninstall mosh on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the mosh package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove mosh
mosh Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/mosh
/usr/bin/mosh-client
/usr/bin/mosh-server
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/07
/usr/lib/.build-id/07/c440b5d87d7144115188333739cd83b48da700
/usr/lib/.build-id/fa
/usr/lib/.build-id/fa/cf2c820fb1c06e8e53d2b9086aa39adc5e826d
/usr/share/doc/mosh
/usr/share/doc/mosh/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/mosh/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/mosh
/usr/share/licenses/mosh/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/mosh-client.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/mosh-server.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/mosh.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mosh on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.