How To Install fail2ban-tests on CentOS 8

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fail2ban-tests on CentOS 8.

What is fail2ban-tests

This package contains Fail2Ban’s testscases and scripts.

We can use yum or dnf to install fail2ban-tests on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fail2ban-tests.

Install fail2ban-tests on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install fail2ban-tests using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fail2ban-tests

Install fail2ban-tests on CentOS 8 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 fail2ban-tests using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fail2ban-tests

How To Uninstall fail2ban-tests on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the fail2ban-tests package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove fail2ban-tests

References

• fail2ban-tests website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fail2ban-tests on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.