How To Install stunnel on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install stunnel
on CentOS 7.
What is stunnel
Stunnel is a socket wrapper which can provide SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) support to ordinary applications. For example, it can be used in conjunction with imapd to create an SSL secure IMAP server.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install stunnel
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install stunnel.
Install stunnel on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install stunnel
using yum
by running the following command:
Install stunnel 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.
After updating yum database, We can install stunnel
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall stunnel on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the stunnel
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install stunnel
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.