How To Install libfaketime on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libfaketime
on CentOS 7.
What is libfaketime
libfaketime intercepts various system calls which programs use to retrieve the current date and time. It can then report faked dates and times (as specified by you, the user) to these programs. This means you can modify the system time a program sees without having to change the time system- wide.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install libfaketime
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libfaketime.
Install libfaketime on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install libfaketime
using yum
by running the following command:
Install libfaketime 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 libfaketime
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall libfaketime on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the libfaketime
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libfaketime
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.