How To Install dnf-plugin-subscription-manager on CentOS 8

dnf-plugin-subscription-manager is Subscription Manager plugins for DNF

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install dnf-plugin-subscription-manager on CentOS 8.

What is dnf-plugin-subscription-manager

This package provides plugins to interact with repositories and subscriptions from the Red Hat entitlement platform; contains subscription-manager and product-id plugins.

We can use yum or dnf to install dnf-plugin-subscription-manager on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dnf-plugin-subscription-manager.

Install dnf-plugin-subscription-manager 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 dnf-plugin-subscription-manager using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install dnf-plugin-subscription-manager

Install dnf-plugin-subscription-manager 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 dnf-plugin-subscription-manager using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install dnf-plugin-subscription-manager

How To Uninstall dnf-plugin-subscription-manager on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the dnf-plugin-subscription-manager package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove dnf-plugin-subscription-manager

dnf-plugin-subscription-manager Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/13
/usr/lib/.build-id/13/2d2b391a221939f8252937b1bdb2574057393a
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf-plugins/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf-plugins/__pycache__/product-id.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf-plugins/__pycache__/product-id.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf-plugins/__pycache__/subscription-manager.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf-plugins/__pycache__/subscription-manager.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf-plugins/__pycache__/upload-profile.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf-plugins/__pycache__/upload-profile.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf-plugins/product-id.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf-plugins/subscription-manager.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf-plugins/upload-profile.py
/usr/lib64/libdnf/plugins/product-id.so
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/46
/usr/lib/.build-id/46/c01c86353b676706192b0359c360e6a9ab9563
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf-plugins/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf-plugins/__pycache__/product-id.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf-plugins/__pycache__/product-id.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf-plugins/__pycache__/subscription-manager.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf-plugins/__pycache__/subscription-manager.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf-plugins/__pycache__/upload-profile.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf-plugins/__pycache__/upload-profile.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf-plugins/product-id.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf-plugins/subscription-manager.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf-plugins/upload-profile.py
/usr/lib64/libdnf/plugins/product-id.so

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install dnf-plugin-subscription-manager on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.