How To Install portreserve on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install portreserve on Rocky Linux 8. portreserve is TCP port reservation utility

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install portreserve on Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install portreserve.

Install portreserve 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 portreserve using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install portreserve

Install portreserve 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 portreserve using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install portreserve

How To Uninstall portreserve on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove portreserve

portreserve Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/portreserve
/sbin/portrelease
/sbin/portreserve
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a1
/usr/lib/.build-id/a1/af1e3ef62bc60445a2ff596e5e9945100945f2
/usr/lib/systemd/system/portreserve.service
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/portreserve.conf
/usr/share/doc/portreserve
/usr/share/doc/portreserve/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/portreserve/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/portreserve/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/portreserve/README
/usr/share/man/man1/portrelease.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/portreserve.1.gz
/var/run/portreserve

References

Summary

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