How To Install tinc on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tinc
on Rocky Linux 8.
What is tinc
tinc is a Virtual Private Network (VPN) daemon that uses tunnelling and encryption to create a secure private network between hosts on the Internet. Because the tunnel appears to the IP level network code as a normal network device, there is no need to adapt any existing software. This tunnelling allows VPN sites to share information with each other over the Internet without exposing any information to others.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install tinc
on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install tinc.
Install tinc on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install tinc
using dnf
by running the following command:
Install tinc on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install tinc
using yum
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall tinc on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the tinc
package we can use the following command:
tinc Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tinc
on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.