How To Install cronie-noanacron on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install cronie-noanacron on CentOS 7. cronie-noanacron is Utility for running simple regular jobs in old cron style

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cronie-noanacron on CentOS 7.

What is cronie-noanacron

Old style of running {hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}.jobs without anacron. No extra features.

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

Install cronie-noanacron on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install cronie-noanacron

Install cronie-noanacron 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 cronie-noanacron using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install cronie-noanacron

How To Uninstall cronie-noanacron on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the cronie-noanacron package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove cronie-noanacron

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Summary

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