How To Install teamd on CentOS 8

teamd is Team network device control daemon Team network device control daemon

Introduction

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

What is `teamd`

The teamd package contains team network device control daemon. teamd 1.31 2.el8 x86_64 130 k libteam-1.31-2.el8.src.rpm baseos Team network device control daemon http LGPLv2+ The teamd package contains team network device control daemon.

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

Install teamd 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 teamd using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install teamd

Install teamd 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 teamd using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install teamd

How To Uninstall teamd on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove teamd

teamd Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/dbus-1/system.d/teamd.conf
/usr/bin/bond2team
/usr/bin/teamd
/usr/bin/teamdctl
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0c
/usr/lib/.build-id/0c/7c8b295ec1cdf6a24a2b89076750755e472f13
/usr/lib/.build-id/0f
/usr/lib/.build-id/0f/97141b297fd889f9857a596c5e67d89014a959
/usr/lib/.build-id/89
/usr/lib/.build-id/89/f24d2ff2615cba602485bac545bd7b2249bc4a
/usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]
/usr/lib64/libteamdctl.so.0
/usr/lib64/libteamdctl.so.0.1.5
/usr/share/doc/teamd
/usr/share/doc/teamd/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/teamd/example_configs
/usr/share/doc/teamd/example_configs/activebackup_arp_ping_1.conf
/usr/share/doc/teamd/example_configs/activebackup_arp_ping_2.conf
/usr/share/doc/teamd/example_configs/activebackup_ethtool_1.conf
/usr/share/doc/teamd/example_configs/activebackup_ethtool_2.conf
/usr/share/doc/teamd/example_configs/activebackup_ethtool_3.conf
/usr/share/doc/teamd/example_configs/activebackup_multi_lw_1.conf
/usr/share/doc/teamd/example_configs/activebackup_nsna_ping_1.conf
/usr/share/doc/teamd/example_configs/activebackup_tipc.conf
/usr/share/doc/teamd/example_configs/broadcast.conf
/usr/share/doc/teamd/example_configs/lacp_1.conf
/usr/share/doc/teamd/example_configs/loadbalance_1.conf
/usr/share/doc/teamd/example_configs/loadbalance_2.conf
/usr/share/doc/teamd/example_configs/loadbalance_3.conf
/usr/share/doc/teamd/example_configs/random.conf
/usr/share/doc/teamd/example_configs/roundrobin.conf
/usr/share/doc/teamd/example_configs/roundrobin_2.conf
/usr/share/doc/teamd/example_ifcfgs
/usr/share/doc/teamd/example_ifcfgs/1
/usr/share/doc/teamd/example_ifcfgs/1/ifcfg-eth1
/usr/share/doc/teamd/example_ifcfgs/1/ifcfg-eth2
/usr/share/doc/teamd/example_ifcfgs/1/ifcfg-team_test0
/usr/share/doc/teamd/example_ifcfgs/2
/usr/share/doc/teamd/example_ifcfgs/2/ifcfg-eth1
/usr/share/doc/teamd/example_ifcfgs/2/ifcfg-eth2
/usr/share/doc/teamd/example_ifcfgs/2/ifcfg-team_test0
/usr/share/doc/teamd/example_ifcfgs/3
/usr/share/doc/teamd/example_ifcfgs/3/ifcfg-eth1
/usr/share/doc/teamd/example_ifcfgs/3/ifcfg-eth2
/usr/share/doc/teamd/example_ifcfgs/3/ifcfg-team_test0
/usr/share/man/man1/bond2team.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/teamd.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/teamd.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/teamdctl.8.gz
/etc/dbus-1/system.d/teamd.conf
/usr/bin/bond2team
/usr/bin/teamd
/usr/bin/teamdctl
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/45
/usr/lib/.build-id/45/3954a52ef6f294c64995e5e41b8d4e92b8d8a3
/usr/lib/.build-id/62
/usr/lib/.build-id/62/9b99e15ae8d7f0db8c709490c914fe011c986c
/usr/lib/.build-id/ee
/usr/lib/.build-id/ee/dc9a1a145d9a38bbd71cb7def78a852a417dda
/usr/lib/libteamdctl.so.0
/usr/lib/libteamdctl.so.0.1.5
/usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]
/usr/share/doc/teamd
/usr/share/doc/teamd/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/teamd/example_configs
/usr/share/doc/teamd/example_configs/activebackup_arp_ping_1.conf
/usr/share/doc/teamd/example_configs/activebackup_arp_ping_2.conf
/usr/share/doc/teamd/example_configs/activebackup_ethtool_1.conf
/usr/share/doc/teamd/example_configs/activebackup_ethtool_2.conf
/usr/share/doc/teamd/example_configs/activebackup_ethtool_3.conf
/usr/share/doc/teamd/example_configs/activebackup_multi_lw_1.conf
/usr/share/doc/teamd/example_configs/activebackup_nsna_ping_1.conf
/usr/share/doc/teamd/example_configs/activebackup_tipc.conf
/usr/share/doc/teamd/example_configs/broadcast.conf
/usr/share/doc/teamd/example_configs/lacp_1.conf
/usr/share/doc/teamd/example_configs/loadbalance_1.conf
/usr/share/doc/teamd/example_configs/loadbalance_2.conf
/usr/share/doc/teamd/example_configs/loadbalance_3.conf
/usr/share/doc/teamd/example_configs/random.conf
/usr/share/doc/teamd/example_configs/roundrobin.conf
/usr/share/doc/teamd/example_configs/roundrobin_2.conf
/usr/share/doc/teamd/example_ifcfgs
/usr/share/doc/teamd/example_ifcfgs/1
/usr/share/doc/teamd/example_ifcfgs/1/ifcfg-eth1
/usr/share/doc/teamd/example_ifcfgs/1/ifcfg-eth2
/usr/share/doc/teamd/example_ifcfgs/1/ifcfg-team_test0
/usr/share/doc/teamd/example_ifcfgs/2
/usr/share/doc/teamd/example_ifcfgs/2/ifcfg-eth1
/usr/share/doc/teamd/example_ifcfgs/2/ifcfg-eth2
/usr/share/doc/teamd/example_ifcfgs/2/ifcfg-team_test0
/usr/share/doc/teamd/example_ifcfgs/3
/usr/share/doc/teamd/example_ifcfgs/3/ifcfg-eth1
/usr/share/doc/teamd/example_ifcfgs/3/ifcfg-eth2
/usr/share/doc/teamd/example_ifcfgs/3/ifcfg-team_test0
/usr/share/man/man1/bond2team.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/teamd.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/teamd.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/teamdctl.8.gz

References

[teamd website](http://www.libteam.org http://www.libteam.org)

Summary

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