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