How To Install mirrorbrain-tools on CentOS 7

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mirrorbrain-tools on CentOS 7.

What is mirrorbrain-tools

MirrorBrain is a scalable download redirector. This package contains utilities provided by the MirrorBrain framework to maintain the database and scan mirrors.

We can use yum or dnf to install mirrorbrain-tools on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mirrorbrain-tools.

Install mirrorbrain-tools on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install mirrorbrain-tools using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install mirrorbrain-tools

Install mirrorbrain-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.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install mirrorbrain-tools using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install mirrorbrain-tools

How To Uninstall mirrorbrain-tools on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the mirrorbrain-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove mirrorbrain-tools

References

• mirrorbrain-tools website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mirrorbrain-tools on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.