How To Install tipcutils on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tipcutils on CentOS 7.
What is tipcutils
Tipcutils is a set of userspace programs used to configure and manage TIPC on your system. It provides the tipc-config and tipc-pipe utilities. The tipc-config tool provides numerous commands for configuring and monitoring a TIPC network. Certain commands are only available to users having network administrator privileges (eg. root) to prevent unauthorized users from reconfiguring the network. The tipc-pipe utility acts as a netcat like program for TIPC. It is used for reading and writing network connections using TIPC.
We can use yum or dnf to install tipcutils on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install tipcutils.
Install tipcutils on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install tipcutils using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install tipcutils
Install tipcutils 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 tipcutils using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install tipcutils
How To Uninstall tipcutils on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the tipcutils package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove tipcutils
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tipcutils on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.