How To Install screen on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install screen on CentOS 8.
What is screen
The screen utility allows you to have multiple logins on just one terminal. Screen is useful for users who telnet into a machine or are connected via a dumb terminal, but want to use more than just one login. Install the screen package if you need a screen manager that can support multiple logins on one terminal.
We can use yum or dnf to install screen on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install screen.
Install screen 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 screen using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install screen
Install screen 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 screen using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install screen
How To Uninstall screen on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the screen package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove screen
screen Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/pam.d/screen
/etc/screenrc
/run/screen
/usr/bin/screen
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/9d
/usr/lib/.build-id/9d/971da281e0d0f25210a95eacb34b8f50ae478b
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/screen.conf
/usr/share/doc/screen
/usr/share/doc/screen/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/screen/FAQ
/usr/share/doc/screen/README
/usr/share/doc/screen/README.DOTSCREEN
/usr/share/info/screen.info.gz
/usr/share/licenses/screen
/usr/share/licenses/screen/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/screen.1.gz
/usr/share/screen
/usr/share/screen/utf8encodings
/usr/share/screen/utf8encodings/01
/usr/share/screen/utf8encodings/02
/usr/share/screen/utf8encodings/03
/usr/share/screen/utf8encodings/04
/usr/share/screen/utf8encodings/18
/usr/share/screen/utf8encodings/19
/usr/share/screen/utf8encodings/a1
/usr/share/screen/utf8encodings/bf
/usr/share/screen/utf8encodings/c2
/usr/share/screen/utf8encodings/c3
/usr/share/screen/utf8encodings/c4
/usr/share/screen/utf8encodings/c6
/usr/share/screen/utf8encodings/c7
/usr/share/screen/utf8encodings/c8
/usr/share/screen/utf8encodings/cc
/usr/share/screen/utf8encodings/cd
/usr/share/screen/utf8encodings/d6
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install screen on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.