How To Install wol on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install wol on Rocky Linux 8. wol is Wake On Lan client

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install wol on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `wol`

wol implements Wake On LAN functionality in a small program. It wakes up hardware that is Magic Packet compliant. SecureON is supported by wol too.

We can use yum or dnf to install wol on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install wol.

Install wol on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install wol

Install wol on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install wol

How To Uninstall wol on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove wol

wol Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/wol
/usr/bin/wol-bootptab
/usr/bin/wol-dhcpdconf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/af
/usr/lib/.build-id/af/24ced7f657eaf0ab1b9cc1c174f1c3844122ef
/usr/share/doc/wol
/usr/share/doc/wol/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/wol/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/wol/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/wol/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/wol/README
/usr/share/doc/wol/TODO
/usr/share/info/wol.info.gz
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/wol.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/wol.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/wol.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/wol.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/wol.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/wol.1.gz

References

wol website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install wol on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.