How To Install avahi on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install avahi
on CentOS 7.
What is avahi
Avahi is a system which facilitates service discovery on a local network – this means that you can plug your laptop or computer into a network and instantly be able to view other people who you can chat with, find printers to print to or find files being shared. This kind of technology is already found in MacOS X (branded ‘Rendezvous’, ‘Bonjour’ and sometimes ‘ZeroConf’) and is very convenient. Avahi is a system which facilitates service discovery on a local network – this means that you can plug your laptop or computer into a network and instantly be able to view other people who you can chat with, find printers to print to or find files being shared. This kind of technology is already found in MacOS X (branded ‘Rendezvous’, ‘Bonjour’ and sometimes ‘ZeroConf’) and is very convenient.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install avahi
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install avahi.
Install avahi on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install avahi
using yum
by running the following command:
Install avahi 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.
After updating yum database, We can install avahi
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall avahi on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the avahi
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install avahi
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.