How To Install wsdd on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install wsdd on Rocky Linux 8. wsdd is Web Services Dynamic Discovery host daemon

Introduction

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

What is wsdd

wsdd implements a Web Service Discovery host daemon. This enables (Samba) hosts, like your local NAS device, to be found by Web Service Discovery Clients like Windows.

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

Install wsdd 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 wsdd using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install wsdd

Install wsdd 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 wsdd using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install wsdd

How To Uninstall wsdd on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove wsdd

wsdd Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/sysconfig/wsdd
/usr/bin/wsdd
/usr/lib/firewalld/services/wsdd-http.xml
/usr/lib/firewalld/services/wsdd.xml
/usr/lib/systemd/system/wsdd.service
/usr/share/doc/wsdd
/usr/share/doc/wsdd/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/wsdd/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/wsdd
/usr/share/licenses/wsdd/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/wsdd.1.gz

References

Summary

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