How To Install aggregate on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install aggregate on CentOS 7. aggregate is IPv4 CIDR prefix aggregator

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install aggregate on CentOS 7.

What is aggregate

aggregate takes a list of prefixes in conventional format on stdin, and performs two optimizations to attempt to reduce the length of the prefix list.

We can use yum or dnf to install aggregate on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install aggregate.

Install aggregate on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install aggregate using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install aggregate

Install aggregate on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install aggregate using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install aggregate

How To Uninstall aggregate on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove aggregate

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install aggregate on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.