How To Install samba-winexe on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install samba-winexe
on CentOS 8.
What is samba-winexe
Winexe is a Remote Windows®-command executor
We can use yum
or dnf
to install samba-winexe
on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install samba-winexe.
Install samba-winexe 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 samba-winexe
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install samba-winexe
Install samba-winexe 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 samba-winexe
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install samba-winexe
How To Uninstall samba-winexe on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the samba-winexe
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove samba-winexe
samba-winexe Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/winexe
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1f/4dfe699fc0e0fa027350942e27962da13620b4
/usr/share/man/man1/winexe.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install samba-winexe
on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.