How To Install ntpdate on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ntpdate
on CentOS 7.
What is ntpdate
ntpdate is a program for retrieving the date and time from NTP servers.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install ntpdate
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ntpdate.
Install ntpdate on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install ntpdate
using yum
by running the following command:
Install ntpdate 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 ntpdate
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall ntpdate on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the ntpdate
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ntpdate
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.