Installing the NISH client

Prerequisites

Before performing the installation, ensure that you have the following:

To install the NISH client, perform the following steps:

Procedure

  1. Put the NISH client RPM packages in a local directory on the target machine.
  2. Use the YUM package manager built into CentOS 7 to install the NISH RPMs.
    Example
    [root@server ~]# yum localinstall -y nish-20.7-R1.el7.x86_64.rpm nish-deps-20.7 R1.e17.x86_64.rpm 
    # Last metadata expiration check: 2:33:56 ago on Thu 11 Jun 2020 11:42:12 CEST.
    Dependencies resolved.
    ===================================================================================
    Package     Architecture    Version       Repository            Size
    ===================================================================================
    Installing:
     nish       x86_64          20.7-R1.el7   @commandline          1.4 M
     nish-deps  x86_64          20.7-R1.el7   @commandline          3.9 M
    Transaction Summary
    ===================================================================================
    Install  2 Packages
    Total size: 5.3 M
    Installed size: 18 M
    Downloading Packages:
    Running transaction check
    Transaction check succeeded.
    Running transaction test
    Transaction test succeeded.
    Running transaction
      Preparing        :
    1/1  Installing       : nish-deps-20.7-R1.el7.x86_64
    1/2  Running scriptlet: nish-deps-20.7-R1.el7.x86_64
    1/2  Installing       : nish-20.7-R1.el7.x86_64
    2/2  Running scriptlet: nish-20.7-R1.el7.x86_64
    2/2  Verifying        : nish-20.7-R1.el7.x86_64
    1/2  Verifying        : nish-deps-20.7-R1.el7.x86_64
    2/2  Installed        : nish-20.7-R1.el7.x86_64 nish-deps-20.7-R1.el7.x86_64
    Complete!