How To Install ethtool on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ethtool
on CentOS 7.
What is ethtool
This utility allows querying and changing settings such as speed, port, auto-negotiation, PCI locations and checksum offload on many network devices, especially of Ethernet devices.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install ethtool
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ethtool.
Install ethtool on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install ethtool
using yum
by running the following command:
Install ethtool 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.
After updating yum database, We can install ethtool
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall ethtool on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the ethtool
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ethtool
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.