How To Install finger on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install finger
on CentOS 7.
What is finger
Finger is a utility which allows users to see information about system users (login name, home directory, name, how long they’ve been logged in to the system, etc.). The finger package includes a standard finger client. You should install finger if you’d like to retrieve finger information from other systems.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install finger
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install finger.
Install finger on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install finger
using yum
by running the following command:
Install finger 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 finger
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall finger on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the finger
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install finger
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.