How To Install corosync-qdevice-net-certutil 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 corosync-qdevice

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install corosync-qdevice

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

What is corosync-qdevice-net-certutil 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 corosync-qdevice-net-certutil 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 corosync-qdevice-net-certutil 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 corosync-qdevice-net-certutil using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install corosync-qdevice

Install corosync-qdevice-net-certutil on CentOS 8 using yum

Because corosync-qdevice-net-certutil 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 corosync-qdevice-net-certutil package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install corosync-qdevice

How to upgrade (update) a single package corosync-qdevice-net-certutil using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

If you want to update a specific package like corosync-qdevice-net-certutil in this example you should use the following command:

yum update corosync-qdevice

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade corosync-qdevice

How to Upgrade corosync-qdevice-net-certutil 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 corosync-qdevice

How To remove corosync-qdevice-net-certutil from CentOS 8

To uninstall only the corosync-qdevice-net-certutil package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove corosync-qdevice

Extra info and code examples

The Corosync Cluster Engine is a Group Communication System with additional features for implementing high availability within applications. The project provides four C Application Programming Interface features: * A closed process group communication model with virtual synchrony guarantees for creating replicated state machines. * A simple availability manager that restarts the application process when it has failed. * A configuration and statistics in-memory database that provide the ability to set, retrieve, and receive change notifications of information. * A quorum system that notifies applications when quorum is achieved or lost. This package contains the quorum device daemon and utilities.

Conclusion

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

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