How To Install krb5-config.mit 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 krb5-multidev

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install krb5-multidev

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

What is krb5-config.mit 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 krb5-config.mit 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 krb5-config.mit 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 krb5-config.mit using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install krb5-multidev

Install krb5-config.mit on CentOS 8 using yum

Because krb5-config.mit 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 krb5-config.mit package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install krb5-multidev

How to upgrade (update) a single package krb5-config.mit using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

If you want to update a specific package like krb5-config.mit in this example you should use the following command:

yum update krb5-multidev

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade krb5-multidev

How to Upgrade krb5-config.mit 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 krb5-multidev

How To remove krb5-config.mit from CentOS 8

To uninstall only the krb5-config.mit package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove krb5-multidev

Extra info and code examples

Kerberos is a system for authenticating users and services on a network. Kerberos is a trusted third-party service. That means that there is a third party (the Kerberos server) that is trusted by all the entities on the network (users and services, usually called "principals"). This is the MIT reference implementation of Kerberos V5. Most users wishing to build applications against MIT Kerberos should install libkrb5-dev. However, that package conflicts with heimdal-dev. This package installs libraries and headers in /usr/include/mit-krb5 and /usr/lib/mit-krb5 and can be installed along side heimdal-multidev, which provides the same facilities for Heimdal.

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install krb5-config.mit using dnf and yum package managers. Also, we showed how to update manually as a single package and different ways to uninstall the krb5-config.mit from CentOS 8.

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