How To Install kea on AlmaLinux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install kea on AlmaLinux 8.
What is kea
DHCP implementation from Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. that features fully functional DHCPv4, DHCPv6 and Dynamic DNS servers. Both DHCP servers fully support server discovery, address assignment, renewal, rebinding and release. The DHCPv6 server supports prefix delegation. Both servers support DNS Update mechanism, using stand-alone DDNS daemon.
We can use yum or dnf to install kea on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install kea.
Install kea on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install kea using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install kea
Install kea on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install kea using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install kea
How To Uninstall kea on AlmaLinux 8
To uninstall only the kea package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove kea
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install kea on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.
