How To Install certmonger on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install certmonger on CentOS 7. certmonger is Certificate status monitor and PKI enrollment client

Introduction

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

What is certmonger

Certmonger is a service which is primarily concerned with getting your system enrolled with a certificate authority (CA) and keeping it enrolled.

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

Install certmonger on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install certmonger

Install certmonger 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 certmonger using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install certmonger

How To Uninstall certmonger on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove certmonger

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Summary

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