How To Install freeipmi-bmc-watchdog on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install freeipmi-bmc-watchdog on CentOS 7.
What is freeipmi-bmc-watchdog
Provides a watchdog daemon for OS monitoring and recovery.
We can use yum or dnf to install freeipmi-bmc-watchdog on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install freeipmi-bmc-watchdog.
Install freeipmi-bmc-watchdog on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install freeipmi-bmc-watchdog using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install freeipmi-bmc-watchdog
Install freeipmi-bmc-watchdog 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 freeipmi-bmc-watchdog using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install freeipmi-bmc-watchdog
How To Uninstall freeipmi-bmc-watchdog on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the freeipmi-bmc-watchdog package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove freeipmi-bmc-watchdog
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install freeipmi-bmc-watchdog on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.