How To Install reptyr on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install reptyr on CentOS 8.
What is reptyr
reptyr is a utility for taking an existing running program and attaching it to a new terminal. Started a long-running process over ssh, but have to leave and don’t want to interrupt it? Just start a screen, use reptyr to grab it, and then kill the ssh session and head on home.
We can use yum or dnf to install reptyr on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install reptyr.
Install reptyr 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 reptyr using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install reptyr
Install reptyr 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 reptyr using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install reptyr
How To Uninstall reptyr on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the reptyr package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove reptyr
reptyr Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/bash_completion.d/reptyr
/usr/bin/reptyr
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/8b
/usr/lib/.build-id/8b/f7a028847b3c0e074823eec4875862ad76d9f5
/usr/share/doc/reptyr
/usr/share/doc/reptyr/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/reptyr/NOTES
/usr/share/doc/reptyr/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/reptyr
/usr/share/licenses/reptyr/COPYING
/usr/share/man/fr/man1/reptyr.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/reptyr.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install reptyr on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.