How To Install udp-sender 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 udpcast

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install udpcast

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

What is udp-sender 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 udp-sender 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 udp-sender 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 udp-sender using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install udpcast

Install udp-sender on CentOS 8 using yum

Because udp-sender 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 udp-sender package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install udpcast

How to upgrade (update) a single package udp-sender using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

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

yum update udpcast

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade udpcast

How to Upgrade udp-sender 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 udpcast

How To remove udp-sender from CentOS 8

To uninstall only the udp-sender package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove udpcast

Extra info and code examples

UDPcast can send data simultaneously to many destinations on a LAN. This can be used, for example, to install entire classrooms of PCs at once. The advantage of UDPcast over other methods (such as NFS, FTP, etc.) is that UDPcast uses Ethernet’s multicast abilities, which means it won’t take longer to install 15 machines than it would to install just two.

Conclusion

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

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