CentOS Minimal Installation important tools

When choose Minimal installation then in system there will some common package missing lets install those step by step.


Install commonly used packages in CentOS 8

dnf update -y
dnf install -y wget vim net-tools bind-utils unzip


Install wget in CentOS 8

Wget is a computer program that retrieves content from web servers.

dnf install -y wget


Install vim in CentOS 8

Vim is a free and open-source, screen-based text editor program for Unix

dnf install -y vim


Install net-tools in CentOS 8

A collection of programs that form the base set of the NET-3 networking distribution for the Linux operating system. Its includes

  • arp (ip neigh)

  • hostname

  • ifconfig (ip addr)

  • ipmaddr (ip maddr)

  • iptunnel (ip tunnel)

  • mii-tool (ethtool)

  • nameif (ifrename)

  • netstat

  • plipconfig

  • rarp

  • route (ip route)

  • slattach

dnf install -y net-tools