How To Install bpcancel 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 ion

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install ion

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

What is bpcancel 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 bpcancel 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 bpcancel 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 bpcancel using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ion

Install bpcancel on CentOS 8 using yum

Because bpcancel 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 bpcancel package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ion

How to upgrade (update) a single package bpcancel using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

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

yum update ion

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade ion

How to Upgrade bpcancel 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 ion

How To remove bpcancel from CentOS 8

To uninstall only the bpcancel package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove ion

Extra info and code examples

Interplanetary Overlay Network (ION) software distribution is an implementation of Delay-Tolerant Networking (DTN) architecture as described in Internet RFC 4838. This is a suite of communication protocol implementations designed to support mission operation communications across an end-to-end interplanetary network, which might include on-board (flight) subnets, in-situ planetary or lunar networks, proximity links, deep space links, and terrestrial internets. Included in the ION software distribution are the following packages: * ici (interplanetary communication infrastructure) a set of libraries that provide flight-software-compatible support for functions on which the other packages rely * bp (bundle protocol), an implementation of the Delay-Tolerant Networking (DTN) architecture's Bundle Protocol. * dgr (datagram retransmission), a UDP reliability system that implements congestion control and is designed for relatively high performance. * ltp (licklider transmission protocol), a DTN convergence layer for reliable transmission over links characterized by long or highly variable delay. * ams - an implementation of the CCSDS Asynchronous Message Service. * cfdp - a class-1 (Unacknowledged) implementation of the CCSDS File Delivery Protocol. This package contains the binary files.

Conclusion

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

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