Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install aria2 on CentOS 8.
What is aria2
aria2 is a download utility with resuming and segmented downloading. Supported protocols are HTTP/HTTPS/FTP/BitTorrent. It also supports Metalink version 3.0. Currently it has following features – HTTP/HTTPS GET support – HTTP Proxy support – HTTP BASIC authentication support – HTTP Proxy authentication support – FTP support(active, passive mode) – FTP through HTTP proxy(GET command or tunneling) – Segmented download – Cookie support – It can run as a daemon process. – BitTorrent protocol support with fast extension. – Selective download in multi-file torrent – Metalink version 3.0 support(HTTP/FTP/BitTorrent). – Limiting download/upload speed
We can use yum or dnf to install aria2 on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install aria2.
Install aria2 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 aria2 using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install aria2
Install aria2 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 aria2 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install aria2
How To Uninstall aria2 on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the aria2 package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove aria2
aria2 Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/aria2c
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a2
/usr/lib/.build-id/a2/776abca06a9e7dc2bc4f4195aaff2370183105
/usr/share/doc/aria2
/usr/share/doc/aria2/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/aria2/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/aria2/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/aria2/README
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/aria2.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/aria2.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn/LC_MESSAGES/aria2.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/aria2.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/aria2.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/aria2.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/aria2.mo
/usr/share/locale/en@boldquot/LC_MESSAGES/aria2.mo
/usr/share/locale/en@quot/LC_MESSAGES/aria2.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/aria2.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/aria2.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/aria2.mo
/usr/share/locale/fil/LC_MESSAGES/aria2.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/aria2.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/aria2.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/aria2.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/aria2.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/aria2.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/aria2.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/aria2.mo
/usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/aria2.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/aria2.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/aria2.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/aria2.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/aria2.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/aria2.mo
/usr/share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/aria2.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/aria2.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/aria2.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/aria2.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/aria2.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/aria2.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/aria2.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/aria2.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/aria2.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/aria2.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/aria2.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/aria2.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/aria2.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/aria2.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_HK/LC_MESSAGES/aria2.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/aria2.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/aria2c.1.gz
/usr/share/man/pt/man1/aria2c.1.gz
/usr/share/man/ru/man1/aria2c.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install aria2 on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
