How To Install radcli on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install radcli on Rocky Linux 8. radcli is RADIUS protocol client library

Introduction

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

What is radcli

The radcli library is a library for writing RADIUS Clients. The library’s approach is to allow writing RADIUS-aware application in less than 50 lines of C code. It was based originally on freeradius-client and is source compatible with it.

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

Install radcli 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 radcli using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install radcli

Install radcli 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 radcli using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install radcli

How To Uninstall radcli on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove radcli

radcli Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/radcli
/etc/radcli/dictionary
/etc/radcli/radiusclient-tls.conf
/etc/radcli/radiusclient.conf
/etc/radcli/servers
/etc/radcli/servers-tls
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f0
/usr/lib/.build-id/f0/5975abb15313f01d761d0bbc74e7e9c3d4e9c0
/usr/lib64/libradcli.so.4
/usr/lib64/libradcli.so.4.3.0
/usr/share/doc/radcli
/usr/share/doc/radcli/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/radcli/README.rst
/usr/share/licenses/radcli
/usr/share/licenses/radcli/COPYRIGHT
/usr/share/radcli
/usr/share/radcli/dictionary
/usr/share/radcli/dictionary.ascend
/usr/share/radcli/dictionary.compat
/usr/share/radcli/dictionary.merit
/usr/share/radcli/dictionary.microsoft
/usr/share/radcli/dictionary.roaringpenguin
/usr/share/radcli/dictionary.sip

References

Summary

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