How To Install iproute on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install iproute
on CentOS 7.
What is iproute
The iproute package contains networking utilities (ip and rtmon, for example) which are designed to use the advanced networking capabilities of the Linux kernel.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install iproute
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install iproute.
Install iproute on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install iproute
using yum
by running the following command:
Install iproute 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 iproute
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall iproute on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the iproute
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install iproute
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.