How To Install gnunet-statistics 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 gnunet

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install gnunet

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

What is gnunet-statistics 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 gnunet-statistics 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 gnunet-statistics 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 gnunet-statistics using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gnunet

Install gnunet-statistics on CentOS 8 using yum

Because gnunet-statistics 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 gnunet-statistics package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gnunet

How to upgrade (update) a single package gnunet-statistics using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

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

yum update gnunet

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade gnunet

How to Upgrade gnunet-statistics 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 gnunet

How To remove gnunet-statistics from CentOS 8

To uninstall only the gnunet-statistics package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove gnunet

Extra info and code examples

GNUnet is a framework for secure peer-to-peer networking that does not use any centralized or otherwise trusted services. Its high-level goal is to provide a strong free software foundation for a global network that provides security and in particular respects privacy. GNUnet started with an idea for anonymous censorship-resistant file-sharing, but has grown to incorporate other applications as well as many generic building blocks for secure networking applications. In particular, GNUnet now includes the GNU Name System, a privacy-preserving, decentralized public key infrastructure.

Conclusion

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

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