How To Install nxproxy on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nxproxy on CentOS 8.
What is nxproxy
This package provides the NX proxy (client) binary.
We can use yum or dnf to install nxproxy on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install nxproxy.
Install nxproxy 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 nxproxy using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install nxproxy
Install nxproxy 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 nxproxy using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install nxproxy
How To Uninstall nxproxy on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the nxproxy package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove nxproxy
nxproxy Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/nxproxy
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ac
/usr/lib/.build-id/ac/b54325db98473890b1d25c3451ce284526c3bd
/usr/lib64/nx
/usr/lib64/nx/bin
/usr/share/man/man1/nxproxy.1.gz
/usr/share/nx
/usr/share/nx/VERSION.nxproxy
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nxproxy on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.