How To Install bind-libs on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install bind-libs on CentOS 7. bind-libs is Libraries used by the BIND DNS packages

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bind-libs on CentOS 7.

What is bind-libs

Contains heavyweight version of BIND suite libraries used by both named DNS server and utilities in bind-utils package. Contains heavyweight version of BIND suite libraries used by both named DNS server and utilities in bind-utils package.

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

Install bind-libs on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install bind-libs using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install bind-libs

Install bind-libs 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 bind-libs using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install bind-libs

How To Uninstall bind-libs on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the bind-libs package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove bind-libs

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Summary

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