How To Install ldapvi on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ldapvi
on CentOS 7.
What is ldapvi
ldapvi is an interactive LDAP client for Unix terminals. Using it, you can update LDAP entries with a text editor, which is the same as vi. Think of it as vipw(1) for LDAP.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install ldapvi
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ldapvi.
Install ldapvi on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install ldapvi
using yum
by running the following command:
Install ldapvi 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 ldapvi
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall ldapvi on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the ldapvi
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ldapvi
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.