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.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install stunnel using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install stunnel
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.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install stunnel using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install stunnel
How To Uninstall stunnel on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the stunnel package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove stunnel
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install stunnel on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
