How To Install Pound on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install Pound on CentOS 8.
What is Pound
The Pound program is a reverse proxy, load balancer and HTTPS front-end for Web server(s). Pound was developed to enable distributing the load among several Web-servers and to allow for a convenient SSL wrapper for those Web servers that do not offer it natively. Pound is distributed under the GPL - no warranty, it’s free to use, copy and give away
We can use yum or dnf to install Pound on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install Pound.
Install Pound 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 Pound using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install Pound
Install Pound 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 Pound using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install Pound
How To Uninstall Pound on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the Pound package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove Pound
Pound Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/pki/tls/certs/pound.pem
/etc/pound.cfg
/usr/bin/poundctl
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/78
/usr/lib/.build-id/78/713ea99f012cc46b39d3e242f78f59196d0fa5
/usr/lib/.build-id/a7
/usr/lib/.build-id/a7/462a140cbd4b4ff20e9586ea0560c7f0c28b51
/usr/lib/systemd/system/pound.service
/usr/sbin/pound
/usr/share/doc/Pound
/usr/share/doc/Pound/CHANGELOG
/usr/share/doc/Pound/FAQ
/usr/share/doc/Pound/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/Pound
/usr/share/licenses/Pound/GPL.txt
/usr/share/man/man8/pound.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/poundctl.8.gz
/var/lib/pound
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install Pound on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.