How To Install rpcbind on CentOS 8

rpcbind is Universal Addresses to RPC Program Number Mapper

Introduction

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

What is rpcbind

The rpcbind utility is a server that converts RPC program numbers into universal addresses. It must be running on the host to be able to make RPC calls on a server on that machine.

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

Install rpcbind 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 rpcbind using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install rpcbind

Install rpcbind 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 rpcbind using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install rpcbind

How To Uninstall rpcbind on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove rpcbind

rpcbind Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/sysconfig/rpcbind
/run/rpcbind
/usr/bin/rpcbind
/usr/bin/rpcinfo
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/64
/usr/lib/.build-id/64/0cb1768231b1734b7082bb58a840c69974f042
/usr/lib/.build-id/bf
/usr/lib/.build-id/bf/d8c33dc0d3b3382c6742a1d6d25f713c5c6b8e
/usr/lib/systemd/system/rpcbind.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/rpcbind.socket
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/rpcbind.conf
/usr/sbin/rpcbind
/usr/sbin/rpcinfo
/usr/share/doc/rpcbind
/usr/share/doc/rpcbind/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/rpcbind/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/rpcbind/README
/usr/share/man/man8/rpcbind.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/rpcinfo.8.gz

References

Summary

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