How To Install timedatex on CentOS 8

timedatex is D-Bus service for system clock and RTC settings

Introduction

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

What is timedatex

timedatex is a D-Bus service that implements the org.freedesktop.timedate1 interface. It can be used to read and set the system clock, the real-time clock (RTC), the system timezone, and enable or disable an NTP client installed on the system. It is a replacement for the systemd-timedated service.

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

Install timedatex 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 timedatex using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install timedatex

Install timedatex 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 timedatex using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install timedatex

How To Uninstall timedatex on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove timedatex

timedatex Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/systemd/system/systemd-timedated.service
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/9b
/usr/lib/.build-id/9b/a68c0b150049d8f9054e2535cd6f79f88fc481
/usr/lib/systemd/ntp-units.d
/usr/lib/systemd/system/timedatex.service
/usr/sbin/timedatex
/usr/share/doc/timedatex
/usr/share/doc/timedatex/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/timedatex/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/timedatex/README
/usr/share/man/man8/timedatex.8.gz

References

Summary

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