How To Install trickle on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install trickle
on CentOS 7.
What is trickle
trickle is a portable lightweight userspace bandwidth shaper. It can run in collaborative mode or in stand alone mode. trickle works by taking advantage of the unix loader preloading. Essentially it provides, to the application, a new version of the functionality that is required to send and receive data through sockets. It then limits traffic based on delaying the sending and receiving of data over a socket. trickle runs entirely in userspace and does not require root privileges.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install trickle
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install trickle.
Install trickle on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install trickle
using yum
by running the following command:
Install trickle 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 trickle
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall trickle on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the trickle
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install trickle
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.