How To Install netcf on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install netcf on Rocky Linux 8. netcf is Cross-platform network configuration library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install netcf on Rocky Linux 8.

What is netcf

Netcf is a library used to modify the network configuration of a system. Network configurations are expressed in a platform-independent XML format, which netcf translates into changes to the system’s ’native’ network configuration files.

We can use yum or dnf to install netcf on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install netcf.

Install netcf on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install netcf

Install netcf on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install netcf using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install netcf

How To Uninstall netcf on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the netcf package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove netcf

netcf Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/ncftool
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/93
/usr/lib/.build-id/93/bf8bcac3c05856619a741e4592b01943921361
/usr/share/man/man1/ncftool.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install netcf on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.