Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cgdcbxd on CentOS 8.
What is cgdcbxd
This is a daemon to manage the priority of network traffic in dcb enabled environments. By using the information exchanged over the dcbx protocol on a LAN, this package will enforce network priority on running applications on your host using the net_prio cgroup
We can use yum or dnf to install cgdcbxd on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cgdcbxd.
Install cgdcbxd 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 cgdcbxd using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install cgdcbxd
Install cgdcbxd 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 cgdcbxd using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install cgdcbxd
How To Uninstall cgdcbxd on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the cgdcbxd package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove cgdcbxd
cgdcbxd Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c3
/usr/lib/.build-id/c3/47f98f5e19c8927bbc0ae91ab039a5a4322c6a
/usr/lib/systemd/system/cgdcbxd.service
/usr/sbin/cgdcbxd
/usr/share/doc/cgdcbxd
/usr/share/doc/cgdcbxd/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/cgdcbxd.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cgdcbxd on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
