How To Install cinch on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install cinch on CentOS 7. cinch is A tool for provisioning Jenkins components for CI

Introduction

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

What is cinch

Cinch is an Ansible-based tool for configuring Jenkins systems to enhance the Continuous Integration experience.

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

Install cinch on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install cinch

Install cinch 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 cinch using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install cinch

How To Uninstall cinch on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove cinch

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Summary

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