How To Install subscription-manager-rhsm-certificates on CentOS 8

subscription-manager-rhsm-certificates is Certificates required to communicate with a Red Hat Unified Entitlement Platform

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install subscription-manager-rhsm-certificates on CentOS 8.

What is subscription-manager-rhsm-certificates

This package contains certificates required for communicating with the REST interface of a Red Hat Unified Entitlement Platform, used for the management of system entitlements and to receive access to content.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install subscription-manager-rhsm-certificates

Install subscription-manager-rhsm-certificates 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 subscription-manager-rhsm-certificates using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install subscription-manager-rhsm-certificates

How To Uninstall subscription-manager-rhsm-certificates on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the subscription-manager-rhsm-certificates package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove subscription-manager-rhsm-certificates

subscription-manager-rhsm-certificates Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/rhsm
/etc/rhsm/ca

References

Summary

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