{"id":1939,"date":"2026-08-15T03:49:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T22:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kwikserver.com\/tutorials\/5-essential-apps-to-install-on-centos-7\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T11:22:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T05:52:53","slug":"5-essential-apps-to-install-on-centos-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kwikserver.com\/tutorials\/5-essential-apps-to-install-on-centos-7\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Essential Apps to Install on a Fresh CentOS 7 Server"},"content":{"rendered":"

A fresh CentOS 7 install gives you the basics, but a handful of extra tools make day-to-day server administration much less painful. Here are five worth installing on any new CentOS 7 VPS.<\/p>\n

1. Vim<\/h2>\n

CentOS 7 ships with a minimal version of vi. Vim builds on that with syntax highlighting, plugins, and a much friendlier editing experience for configuration files and scripts.<\/p>\n

yum install vim<\/pre>\n
2. net-tools (ifconfig)<\/h2>\n
CentOS 7 leans toward the newer ip<\/code> command, but plenty of admins still reach for ifconfig<\/code> out of habit, and net-tools brings it back along with useful companions like arp<\/code>, route<\/code>, and netstat<\/code>.<\/p>\n
yum install net-tools yum-utils\nrepoquery -l net-tools<\/pre>\n
3. Wget<\/h2>\n
Wget downloads files over HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP without needing an active user session, which makes it ideal for large transfers. It can resume interrupted downloads and throttle bandwidth so it doesn’t hog the whole connection.<\/p>\n
yum install wget<\/pre>\n
4. Telnet<\/h2>\n
Telnet is handy for a quick, low-level check of whether a remote port is actually open and responding, useful when troubleshooting mail servers or firewalls. It sends everything unencrypted, so it’s a diagnostic tool only, never something to leave exposed to the public internet.<\/p>\n
yum install telnet\ntelnet gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com 25<\/pre>\n
To close a connection, press Ctrl + ]<\/code>, then type quit<\/code>.<\/p>\n
5. Htop<\/h2>\n
Htop is an interactive process monitor that improves on the default top<\/code> in almost every way: mouse support, scrolling, faster startup since it doesn’t wait to fetch data before displaying, and the ability to kill multiple processes at once. It needs the EPEL repository first.<\/p>\n
yum install epel-release\nyum install htop<\/pre>\n
None of these five tools take more than a minute to install, and together they cover editing, networking, downloading, port testing, and process monitoring, the core toolkit you’ll reach for on almost any CentOS server.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Five command-line tools worth adding to a fresh CentOS 7 install: Vim, ifconfig\/net-tools, Wget, Telnet, and Htop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_yoast_wpseo_title":"","_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":"","_yoast_wpseo_focuskw":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_focus_keyword":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t