How To Install skopeo on CentOS 8

skopeo is Inspect container images and repositories on registries

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install skopeo on CentOS 8.

What is skopeo

Command line utility to inspect images and repositories directly on Docker registries without the need to pull them

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

Install skopeo 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 skopeo using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install skopeo

Install skopeo 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 skopeo using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install skopeo

How To Uninstall skopeo on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the skopeo package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove skopeo

skopeo Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/skopeo
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b9
/usr/lib/.build-id/b9/03c122bf0dd06ae628af74e9195f1b91a0dd20
/usr/share/bash-completion
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/skopeo
/usr/share/doc/skopeo
/usr/share/doc/skopeo/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/skopeo
/usr/share/licenses/skopeo/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/skopeo-copy.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/skopeo-delete.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/skopeo-inspect.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/skopeo-list-tags.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/skopeo-login.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/skopeo-logout.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/skopeo-manifest-digest.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/skopeo-standalone-sign.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/skopeo-standalone-verify.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/skopeo-sync.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/skopeo.1.gz
/usr/bin/skopeo
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c2
/usr/lib/.build-id/c2/ddccdd68cbffd26af31d586161830c0148c5f0
/usr/share/bash-completion
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/skopeo
/usr/share/doc/skopeo
/usr/share/doc/skopeo/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/skopeo
/usr/share/licenses/skopeo/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/skopeo-copy.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/skopeo-delete.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/skopeo-inspect.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/skopeo-list-tags.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/skopeo-login.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/skopeo-logout.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/skopeo-manifest-digest.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/skopeo-standalone-sign.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/skopeo-standalone-verify.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/skopeo-sync.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/skopeo.1.gz

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install skopeo on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.