How To Install openarc on CentOS 8

openarc is An open source library and milter for providing ARC service

Introduction

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

What is openarc

The Trusted Domain Project is a community effort to develop and maintain a C library for producing ARC-aware applications and an open source milter for providing ARC service through milter-enabled MTAs.

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

Install openarc 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 openarc using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install openarc

Install openarc 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 openarc using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install openarc

How To Uninstall openarc on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove openarc

openarc Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/openarc
/etc/openarc.conf
/etc/openarc/PeerList
/run/openarc
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/21
/usr/lib/.build-id/21/e0d4ab2d6d7c484c551bdf65214b3cc409dbd7
/usr/lib/systemd/system/openarc.service
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/openarc.conf
/usr/sbin/openarc
/usr/share/doc/openarc
/usr/share/doc/openarc/README
/usr/share/doc/openarc/RELEASE_NOTES
/usr/share/doc/openarc/openarc.conf.sample
/usr/share/licenses/openarc
/usr/share/licenses/openarc/LICENSE
/usr/share/licenses/openarc/LICENSE.Sendmail
/usr/share/man/man5/openarc.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/openarc.8.gz

References

Summary

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