How To Install scap-security-guide-doc on CentOS 7

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install scap-security-guide-doc on CentOS 7.

What is scap-security-guide-doc

The scap-security-guide-doc package contains HTML formatted documents containing security guides that have been generated from XCCDF benchmarks present in scap-security-guide package.

We can use yum or dnf to install scap-security-guide-doc on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install scap-security-guide-doc.

Install scap-security-guide-doc on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install scap-security-guide-doc using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install scap-security-guide-doc

Install scap-security-guide-doc 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 scap-security-guide-doc using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install scap-security-guide-doc

How To Uninstall scap-security-guide-doc on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the scap-security-guide-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove scap-security-guide-doc

References

• scap-security-guide-doc website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install scap-security-guide-doc on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.