How To Install tang on CentOS 8

tang is Network Presence Binding Daemon

Introduction

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

What is tang

Tang is a small daemon for binding data to the presence of a third party.

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

Install tang 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 tang using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install tang

Install tang 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 tang using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install tang

How To Uninstall tang on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove tang

tang Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/tang-show-keys
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/15
/usr/lib/.build-id/15/9125e2f903d25bc0696c875a923310ed6c06e6
/usr/lib/systemd/system/tangd.socket
/usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]
/usr/libexec/tangd
/usr/libexec/tangd-keygen
/usr/share/licenses/tang
/usr/share/licenses/tang/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/tang-show-keys.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/tang.8.gz
/var/db/tang

References

Summary

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