How To Install bdii on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install bdii on Rocky Linux 8. bdii is The Berkeley Database Information Index (BDII)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bdii on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `bdii`

The Berkeley Database Information Index (BDII) consists of a standard LDAP database which is updated by an external process. The update process obtains LDIF from a number of sources and merges them. It then compares this to the contents of the database and creates an LDIF file of the differences. This is then used to update the database.

We can use yum or dnf to install bdii on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install bdii.

Install bdii on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install bdii

Install bdii on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install bdii

How To Uninstall bdii on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove bdii

bdii Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/bdii
/etc/bdii/BDII.schema
/etc/bdii/DB_CONFIG
/etc/bdii/DB_CONFIG_top
/etc/bdii/bdii-slapd.conf
/etc/bdii/bdii-top-slapd.conf
/etc/bdii/bdii.conf
/etc/logrotate.d/bdii
/etc/sysconfig/bdii
/usr/lib/systemd/system/bdii-slapd.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/bdii.service
/usr/sbin/bdii-update
/usr/share/bdii
/usr/share/bdii/bdii-slapd-start
/usr/share/doc/bdii
/usr/share/doc/bdii/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/bdii/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/bdii
/usr/share/licenses/bdii/COPYRIGHT
/usr/share/licenses/bdii/LICENSE.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/bdii-update.1.gz
/var/lib/bdii
/var/lib/bdii/gip
/var/lib/bdii/gip/ldif
/var/lib/bdii/gip/ldif/default.ldif
/var/lib/bdii/gip/plugin
/var/lib/bdii/gip/provider
/var/log/bdii

References

bdii website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install bdii on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.