How To Install fstrm_capture 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 fstrm-bin

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install fstrm-bin

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

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

sudo dnf -y install fstrm-bin

Install fstrm_capture on CentOS 8 using yum

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

sudo yum -y install fstrm-bin

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

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

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

yum update fstrm-bin

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade fstrm-bin

How to Upgrade fstrm_capture 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 fstrm-bin

How To remove fstrm_capture from CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove fstrm-bin

Extra info and code examples

Frame Streams is a light weight, binary clean protocol that allows for the transport of arbitrarily encoded data payload sequences with minimal framing overhead -- just four bytes per data frame. Frame Streams does not specify an encoding format for data frames and can be used with any data serialization format that produces byte sequences, such as Protocol Buffers, XML, JSON, MessagePack, YAML, etc. Frame Streams can be used as both a streaming transport over a reliable byte stream socket (TCP sockets, TLS connections, AF_UNIX sockets, etc.) for data in motion as well as a file format for data at rest. A "Content Type" header identifies the type of payload being carried over an individual Frame Stream and allows cooperating programs to determine how to interpret a given sequence of data payloads. This is the "fstrm" implementation of Frame Streams in C. This package contains the command line utilities.

Conclusion

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

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