How To Install multinet 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 dnet-progs

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install dnet-progs

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

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

sudo dnf -y install dnet-progs

Install multinet on CentOS 8 using yum

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

sudo yum -y install dnet-progs

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

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

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

yum update dnet-progs

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade dnet-progs

How to Upgrade multinet 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 dnet-progs

How To remove multinet from CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove dnet-progs

Extra info and code examples

These tools are the application layer interface for DECnet on Linux systems. They provide file/terminal access facilities between OpenVMS and Linux and remote execution of commands. Also included is a Linux version of the VMS "Phone" utility and a VMSMail to SMTP gateway.

Conclusion

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

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