How To Install wide-dhcpv6 on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install wide-dhcpv6 on CentOS 8.
What is wide-dhcpv6
This is the DHCPv6 package from WIDE project. For more information visit the project web site at http DHCPv6 allows prefix delegation and host configuration for the IPv6 network protocol. Multiple network interfaces are supported by this DHCPv6 package. This package contains the server, relay and client.
We can use yum or dnf to install wide-dhcpv6 on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install wide-dhcpv6.
Install wide-dhcpv6 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 wide-dhcpv6 using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install wide-dhcpv6
Install wide-dhcpv6 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 wide-dhcpv6 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install wide-dhcpv6
How To Uninstall wide-dhcpv6 on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the wide-dhcpv6 package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove wide-dhcpv6
wide-dhcpv6 Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/wide-dhcpv6
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/52
/usr/lib/.build-id/52/f14f39dd3b8ef0bd1cc1ab3b3ca249abdceada
/usr/lib/.build-id/7f
/usr/lib/.build-id/7f/4d48bbcb0fb520caca7c5e277a3884032b30fb
/usr/lib/.build-id/a7
/usr/lib/.build-id/a7/9a964133b3d4f4bd5e37221837de2942c7d016
/usr/lib/.build-id/ba
/usr/lib/.build-id/ba/2e11142613c65e7346da7f16b1d81eddc6569c
/usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]
/usr/sbin/dhcp6c
/usr/sbin/dhcp6ctl
/usr/sbin/dhcp6relay
/usr/sbin/dhcp6s
/usr/share/doc/wide-dhcpv6/CHANGELOG-LINUX
/usr/share/doc/wide-dhcpv6/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/wide-dhcpv6/COPYRIGHT
/usr/share/doc/wide-dhcpv6/README
/usr/share/doc/wide-dhcpv6/RELEASENOTES
/usr/share/doc/wide-dhcpv6/dhcp6c-script
/usr/share/doc/wide-dhcpv6/dhcp6c.conf.sample
/usr/share/doc/wide-dhcpv6/dhcp6c.service
/usr/share/doc/wide-dhcpv6/dhcp6r.service
/usr/share/doc/wide-dhcpv6/dhcp6s.conf.sample
/usr/share/doc/wide-dhcpv6/dhcp6s.service
/usr/share/man/man5/dhcp6c.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/dhcp6s.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/dhcp6c.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/dhcp6ctl.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/dhcp6relay.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/dhcp6s.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install wide-dhcpv6 on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.