How To Install syncthing on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install syncthing on CentOS 8.
What is syncthing
Syncthing replaces other file synchronization services with something open, trustworthy and decentralized. Your data is your data alone and you deserve to choose where it is stored, if it is shared with some third party and how it’s transmitted over the Internet. Using syncthing, that control is returned to you. This package contains the syncthing client binary and systemd services.
We can use yum or dnf to install syncthing on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install syncthing.
Install syncthing 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 syncthing using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install syncthing
Install syncthing 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 syncthing using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install syncthing
How To Uninstall syncthing on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the syncthing package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove syncthing
syncthing Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/syncthing
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/dc
/usr/lib/.build-id/dc/4a1f8eb84c2714972989a4a1784055471bb23b
/usr/lib/systemd/system/syncthing-resume.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]
/usr/lib/systemd/user/syncthing.service
/usr/share/doc/syncthing
/usr/share/doc/syncthing/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/syncthing/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/syncthing
/usr/share/licenses/syncthing/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/syncthing.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/syncthing-config.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/syncthing-stignore.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/syncthing-bep.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/syncthing-device-ids.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/syncthing-event-api.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/syncthing-faq.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/syncthing-globaldisco.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/syncthing-localdisco.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/syncthing-networking.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/syncthing-relay.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/syncthing-rest-api.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/syncthing-security.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/syncthing-versioning.7.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install syncthing on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.