How To Install dehydrated on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dehydrated on CentOS 7.
What is dehydrated
This is a client for signing certificates with an ACME-server (currently only provided by Let’s Encrypt) implemented as a relatively simple bash- script. Dehydrated supports both ACME v1 and the new ACME v2 including support for wildcard certificates! Current features * Signing of a list of domains * Signing of a CSR * Renewal if a certificate is about to expire or SAN (subdomains) changed * Certificate revocation
We can use yum or dnf to install dehydrated on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dehydrated.
Install dehydrated on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install dehydrated using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install dehydrated
Install dehydrated 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 dehydrated using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install dehydrated
How To Uninstall dehydrated on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the dehydrated package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove dehydrated
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dehydrated on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
