How To Install tinc on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tinc on CentOS 8.
What is tinc
tinc is a Virtual Private Network (VPN) daemon that uses tunnelling and encryption to create a secure private network between hosts on the Internet. Because the tunnel appears to the IP level network code as a normal network device, there is no need to adapt any existing software. This tunnelling allows VPN sites to share information with each other over the Internet without exposing any information to others.
We can use yum or dnf to install tinc on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install tinc.
Install tinc 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 tinc using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install tinc
Install tinc 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 tinc using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install tinc
How To Uninstall tinc on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the tinc package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove tinc
tinc Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ec
/usr/lib/.build-id/ec/f0a564e8d20e169bed52480a235992928751ed
/usr/lib/systemd/system/tinc.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]
/usr/sbin/tincd
/usr/share/doc/tinc
/usr/share/doc/tinc/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/tinc/COPYING.README
/usr/share/doc/tinc/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/tinc/README
/usr/share/doc/tinc/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/tinc/sample-config
/usr/share/doc/tinc/sample-config/hosts
/usr/share/doc/tinc/sample-config/hosts/alpha
/usr/share/doc/tinc/sample-config/hosts/beta
/usr/share/doc/tinc/sample-config/rsa_key.priv
/usr/share/doc/tinc/sample-config/tinc-down
/usr/share/doc/tinc/sample-config/tinc-up
/usr/share/doc/tinc/sample-config/tinc.conf
/usr/share/doc/tinc/texinfo.tex
/usr/share/info/tinc.info.gz
/usr/share/licenses/tinc
/usr/share/licenses/tinc/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man5/tinc.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/tincd.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tinc on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.