How To Install argonaut-fuse on CentOS 8

One-liner Install Command

If you are only interested in the installation command, here is a quick answer for you:

sudo yum makecache && sudo yum -y install argonaut-fuse

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install argonaut-fuse

But if you are interested in the details with step-by-step instructions, the following information will be helpful.

What is argonaut-fuse and How to Install It?

First things first, you will need access to a server or computer running CentOS 8. This guide was written specifically with a server running CentOS 8 in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install argonaut-fuse on CentOS 8. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install argonaut-fuse on CentOS 8 using dnf

First, update dnf packages database with dnf by running the next command:

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating database, You can install argonaut-fuse using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install argonaut-fuse

Install argonaut-fuse on CentOS 8 using yum

Because argonaut-fuse is available in CentOS 8’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the yum packaging system.

To begin, update local packages database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

Now can install argonaut-fuse package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install argonaut-fuse

How to upgrade (update) a single package argonaut-fuse using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

If you want to update a specific package like argonaut-fuse in this example you should use the following command:

yum update argonaut-fuse

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade argonaut-fuse

How to Upgrade argonaut-fuse on CentOS 8 with dnf?

When you run the dnf update, all system packages with available updates are updated. However, if you want to upgrade a single package, then you would have to pass the package name as the argument to the dnf update command.

dnf update argonaut-fuse

How To remove argonaut-fuse from CentOS 8

To uninstall only the argonaut-fuse package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove argonaut-fuse

Extra info and code examples

Client / server system for managing systems in collaboration with FusionDirectory (LDAP directory manager). Argonaut also allows interface with deployment tools such as FAI (Fully Automated Install) or OPSI (Open PC Server Integration). Argonaut-fuse is a modular fuse-tftp-supplicant written in Perl which allows one to create pxelinux configurations for different types of clients using external modules.

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install argonaut-fuse using dnf and yum package managers. Also, we showed how to update manually as a single package and different ways to uninstall the argonaut-fuse from CentOS 8.

See also: