How To Install portreserve on AlmaLinux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install portreserve on AlmaLinux 8.
What is portreserve
The portreserve program aims to help services with well-known ports that lie in the portmap range. It prevents portmap from a real service’s port by occupying it itself, until the real service tells it to release the port (generally in the init script).
We can use yum or dnf to install portreserve on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install portreserve.
Install portreserve on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install portreserve using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install portreserve
Install portreserve on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install portreserve using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install portreserve
How To Uninstall portreserve on AlmaLinux 8
To uninstall only the portreserve package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove portreserve
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install portreserve on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.
