How To Install uuidd on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install uuidd on CentOS 8.
What is uuidd
The uuidd package contains a userspace daemon (uuidd) which guarantees uniqueness of time-based UUID generation even at very high rates on SMP systems.
We can use yum or dnf to install uuidd on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install uuidd.
Install uuidd 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 uuidd using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install uuidd
Install uuidd 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 uuidd using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install uuidd
How To Uninstall uuidd on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the uuidd package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove uuidd
uuidd Package Contents on CentOS 8
/run/uuidd
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/44/3d855c4a91f59dc372d4e83deff7e034e829f7
/usr/lib/systemd/system/uuidd.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/uuidd.socket
/usr/sbin/uuidd
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/uuidd
/usr/share/licenses/uuidd
/usr/share/licenses/uuidd/COPYING.GPLv2
/usr/share/man/man8/uuidd.8.gz
/var/lib/libuuid
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install uuidd on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.