How To Install chkconf 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 ircd-irc2

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install ircd-irc2

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

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

sudo dnf -y install ircd-irc2

Install chkconf on CentOS 8 using yum

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

sudo yum -y install ircd-irc2

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

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

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

yum update ircd-irc2

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade ircd-irc2

How to Upgrade chkconf 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 ircd-irc2

How To remove chkconf from CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove ircd-irc2

Extra info and code examples

This is the original Internet Relay Chat (IRC) daemon, allowing interactive character based communication between people connected to this server with IRC clients. This version of ircd is mostly used on the IRCNet irc network.

Conclusion

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

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