How To Install usermode on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install usermode on CentOS 7. usermode is Tools for certain user account management tasks

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install usermode on CentOS 7.

What is usermode

The usermode package contains the userhelper program, which can be used to allow configured programs to be run with superuser privileges by ordinary users.

We can use yum or dnf to install usermode on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install usermode.

Install usermode on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install usermode using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install usermode

Install usermode 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 usermode using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install usermode

How To Uninstall usermode on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove usermode

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install usermode on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.