How To Install soscleaner on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install soscleaner on CentOS 7. soscleaner is To clean and filter sensitive data from a standard sosreport

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install soscleaner on CentOS 7.

What is soscleaner

SOSCleaner helps filter out controlled or sensitive data from an SOSReport

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

Install soscleaner on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install soscleaner using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install soscleaner

Install soscleaner 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 soscleaner using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install soscleaner

How To Uninstall soscleaner on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove soscleaner

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install soscleaner on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.