How To Install fai-debconf 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 fai-client

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install fai-client

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

What is fai-debconf 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 fai-debconf 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 fai-debconf 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 fai-debconf using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fai-client

Install fai-debconf on CentOS 8 using yum

Because fai-debconf 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 fai-debconf package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fai-client

How to upgrade (update) a single package fai-debconf using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

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

yum update fai-client

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade fai-client

How to Upgrade fai-debconf 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 fai-client

How To remove fai-debconf from CentOS 8

To uninstall only the fai-debconf package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove fai-client

Extra info and code examples

FAI is a non-interactive system to install, customize and manage Linux systems and software configurations on computers as well as virtual machines and chroot environments, from small networks to large infrastructures and clusters. This is the client package for FAI. It contains the parts necessary to run the softupdate functionality on already installed systems, and is needed for the dirinstall functionality and others on a FAI server.

Conclusion

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

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