How To Install pciutils on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pciutils on CentOS 7.
What is pciutils
The pciutils package contains various utilities for inspecting and setting devices connected to the PCI bus. The utilities provided require kernel version 2.1.82 or newer (which support the /proc/bus/pci interface).
We can use yum or dnf to install pciutils on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install pciutils.
Install pciutils on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install pciutils using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install pciutils
Install pciutils 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 pciutils using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install pciutils
How To Uninstall pciutils on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the pciutils package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove pciutils
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pciutils on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
