How To Install wrap-link 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 xenomai-system-tools

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install xenomai-system-tools

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

What is wrap-link 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 wrap-link 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 wrap-link 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 wrap-link using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install xenomai-system-tools

Install wrap-link on CentOS 8 using yum

Because wrap-link 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 wrap-link package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install xenomai-system-tools

How to upgrade (update) a single package wrap-link using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

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

yum update xenomai-system-tools

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade xenomai-system-tools

How to Upgrade wrap-link 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 xenomai-system-tools

How To remove wrap-link from CentOS 8

To uninstall only the wrap-link package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove xenomai-system-tools

Extra info and code examples

Xenomai is a real-time development framework cooperating with the Linux kernel in order to provide a pervasive, interface-agnostic, hard real-time support to user-space applications, seamlessly integrated into the GNU/Linux environment. Xenomai provides its own API and emulation layers ("skins") to make migration from other RTOS easier. Examples are: pSOS+, VxWorks, VRTX, uiTRON, RTAI, POSIX. This package contains the runtime programs, testsuite for the Xenomai realtime system and system configuration scripts.

Conclusion

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

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