Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install banner on CentOS 8.
What is banner
Classic-style banner program similar to the one found in Solaris or AIX. The banner program prints a short string to the console in very large letters.
We can use yum or dnf to install banner on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install banner.
Install banner 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 banner using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install banner
Install banner 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 banner using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install banner
How To Uninstall banner on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the banner package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove banner
banner Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/banner
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/38
/usr/lib/.build-id/38/5ebc202fd83205eedf6644daf2af75a132d211
/usr/share/doc/banner
/usr/share/doc/banner/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/banner/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/banner/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/banner/README
/usr/share/man/man1/banner.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install banner on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
