How To Install mirmon on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mirmon on CentOS 7.
What is mirmon
Many software projects are mirrored worldwide. The mirror sites are required to update the mirror archive regularly (daily, weekly) from a root server. Mirmon helps administrators in keeping an eye on the mirror sites. In a concise graphic format, mirmon shows each site’s status history of the last two weeks. It is easy to spot stale or dead mirrors.
We can use yum or dnf to install mirmon on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mirmon.
Install mirmon on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install mirmon using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install mirmon
Install mirmon 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.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install mirmon using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install mirmon
How To Uninstall mirmon on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the mirmon package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove mirmon
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mirmon on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
