Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install anope-openssl on CentOS 8.
What is anope-openssl
Anope is a set of IRC services designed for flexibility and ease of use. This package provides an Anope module using OpenSSL to e.g. connect to the uplink server(s) via SSL/TLS.
We can use yum or dnf to install anope-openssl on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install anope-openssl.
Install anope-openssl 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 anope-openssl using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install anope-openssl
Install anope-openssl 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 anope-openssl using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install anope-openssl
How To Uninstall anope-openssl on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the anope-openssl package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove anope-openssl
anope-openssl Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f4/c2e7b053b0b7034b6ee750e4684af420ba2c6e
/usr/lib64/anope/modules/m_ssl_openssl.so
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install anope-openssl on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
