How To Install radcli on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install radcli on CentOS 8.
What is radcli
The radcli library is a library for writing RADIUS Clients. The library’s approach is to allow writing RADIUS-aware application in less than 50 lines of C code. It was based originally on freeradius-client and is source compatible with it.
We can use yum or dnf to install radcli on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install radcli.
Install radcli 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 radcli using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install radcli
Install radcli 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 radcli using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install radcli
How To Uninstall radcli on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the radcli package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove radcli
radcli Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/radcli
/etc/radcli/dictionary
/etc/radcli/radiusclient-tls.conf
/etc/radcli/radiusclient.conf
/etc/radcli/servers
/etc/radcli/servers-tls
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f0
/usr/lib/.build-id/f0/5975abb15313f01d761d0bbc74e7e9c3d4e9c0
/usr/lib64/libradcli.so.4
/usr/lib64/libradcli.so.4.3.0
/usr/share/doc/radcli
/usr/share/doc/radcli/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/radcli/README.rst
/usr/share/licenses/radcli
/usr/share/licenses/radcli/COPYRIGHT
/usr/share/radcli
/usr/share/radcli/dictionary
/usr/share/radcli/dictionary.ascend
/usr/share/radcli/dictionary.compat
/usr/share/radcli/dictionary.merit
/usr/share/radcli/dictionary.microsoft
/usr/share/radcli/dictionary.roaringpenguin
/usr/share/radcli/dictionary.sip
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install radcli on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.