How To Install libident-tools on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libident-tools
on CentOS 7.
What is libident-tools
in.identtestd is a small daemon (to be started from inetd) that does an ident lookup on you if you telnet into it. Can be used to verify that your Ident server is working correctly.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install libident-tools
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libident-tools.
Install libident-tools on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install libident-tools
using yum
by running the following command:
Install libident-tools 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 libident-tools
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall libident-tools on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the libident-tools
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libident-tools
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.