How To Install tang on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install tang on Rocky Linux 8. tang is Network Presence Binding Daemon

Introduction

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

What is `tang`

Tang is a small daemon for binding data to the presence of a third party.

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

Install tang 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 tang using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install tang

Install tang 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 tang using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install tang

How To Uninstall tang on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove tang

tang Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/tang-show-keys
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/e7
/usr/lib/.build-id/e7/7e0fa5a867fad5ce72ac0dbf535f6456b5489b
/usr/lib/systemd/system/tangd.socket
/usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]
/usr/libexec/tangd
/usr/libexec/tangd-keygen
/usr/share/licenses/tang
/usr/share/licenses/tang/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/tang-show-keys.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/tang.8.gz
/var/db/tang

References

tang website

Summary

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