How To Install vboxd 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 isdn4k-utils

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install isdn4k-utils

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

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

sudo dnf -y install isdn4k-utils

Install vboxd on CentOS 8 using yum

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

sudo yum -y install isdn4k-utils

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

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

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

yum update isdn4k-utils

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade isdn4k-utils

How to Upgrade vboxd 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 isdn4k-utils

How To remove vboxd from CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove isdn4k-utils

Extra info and code examples

Let your Debian system be your answering machine! Messages can be accessed remotely, automatically emailed, etc. This package provides the vbox server, which must be installed on the system with the ISDN card. To actually listen to the recorded messages you need the client package (isdnvboxclient) somewhere, not necessarily on the same system.

Conclusion

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

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