How To Install deb-preconf-drbl 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 drbl

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install drbl

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

What is deb-preconf-drbl 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 deb-preconf-drbl 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 deb-preconf-drbl 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 deb-preconf-drbl using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install drbl

Install deb-preconf-drbl on CentOS 8 using yum

Because deb-preconf-drbl 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 deb-preconf-drbl package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install drbl

How to upgrade (update) a single package deb-preconf-drbl using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

If you want to update a specific package like deb-preconf-drbl in this example you should use the following command:

yum update drbl

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade drbl

How to Upgrade deb-preconf-drbl 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 drbl

How To remove deb-preconf-drbl from CentOS 8

To uninstall only the deb-preconf-drbl package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove drbl

Extra info and code examples

DRBL (Diskless Remote Boot in Linux) provides a diskless or systemless environment for client machines. It works on Debian, Ubuntu, Mandriva, Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS and OpenSuSE. DRBL uses distributed hardware resources and makes it possible for clients to fully access local hardware. It also includes Clonezilla, a partition and disk cloning utility similar to Symantec Ghost(TM) or True Image(TM). For more details, check 1. http://drbl.sourceforge.net (English) 2. http://drbl.nchc.org.tw (Chinese Big5 - Taiwan)

Conclusion

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

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