Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bdii on CentOS 8.
What is bdii
The Berkeley Database Information Index (BDII) consists of a standard LDAP database which is updated by an external process. The update process obtains LDIF from a number of sources and merges them. It then compares this to the contents of the database and creates an LDIF file of the differences. This is then used to update the database.
We can use yum or dnf to install bdii on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install bdii.
Install bdii on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install bdii using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install bdii
Install bdii on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install bdii using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install bdii
How To Uninstall bdii on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the bdii package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove bdii
bdii Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/bdii
/etc/bdii/BDII.schema
/etc/bdii/DB_CONFIG
/etc/bdii/DB_CONFIG_top
/etc/bdii/bdii-slapd.conf
/etc/bdii/bdii-top-slapd.conf
/etc/bdii/bdii.conf
/etc/logrotate.d/bdii
/etc/sysconfig/bdii
/usr/lib/systemd/system/bdii-slapd.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/bdii.service
/usr/sbin/bdii-update
/usr/share/bdii
/usr/share/bdii/bdii-slapd-start
/usr/share/doc/bdii
/usr/share/doc/bdii/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/bdii/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/bdii
/usr/share/licenses/bdii/COPYRIGHT
/usr/share/licenses/bdii/LICENSE.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/bdii-update.1.gz
/var/lib/bdii
/var/lib/bdii/gip
/var/lib/bdii/gip/ldif
/var/lib/bdii/gip/ldif/default.ldif
/var/lib/bdii/gip/plugin
/var/lib/bdii/gip/provider
/var/log/bdii
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bdii on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
