How To Install am-utils on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install am-utils on CentOS 7.
What is am-utils
Am-utils includes an updated version of Amd, the popular BSD automounter. An automounter is a program which maintains a cache of mounted filesystems. Filesystems are mounted when they are first referenced by the user and unmounted after a certain period of inactivity. Amd supports a variety of filesystems, including NFS, UFS, CD-ROMS and local drives. You should install am-utils if you need a program for automatically mounting and unmounting filesystems.
We can use yum or dnf to install am-utils on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install am-utils.
Install am-utils on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install am-utils using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install am-utils
Install am-utils 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 am-utils using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install am-utils
How To Uninstall am-utils on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the am-utils package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove am-utils
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install am-utils on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
