How To Install cockpit-composer on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install cockpit-composer on Rocky Linux 8. cockpit-composer is Composer GUI for use with Cockpit

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cockpit-composer on Rocky Linux 8.

What is cockpit-composer

Composer generates custom images suitable for deploying systems or uploading to the cloud. It integrates into Cockpit as a frontend for osbuild.

We can use yum or dnf to install cockpit-composer on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cockpit-composer.

Install cockpit-composer on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install cockpit-composer using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install cockpit-composer

Install cockpit-composer on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install cockpit-composer using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cockpit-composer

How To Uninstall cockpit-composer on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the cockpit-composer package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove cockpit-composer

cockpit-composer Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/share/cockpit/composer
/usr/share/cockpit/composer/index.html
/usr/share/cockpit/composer/main.css
/usr/share/cockpit/composer/main.css.map
/usr/share/cockpit/composer/main.js
/usr/share/cockpit/composer/main.js.map
/usr/share/cockpit/composer/manifest.json
/usr/share/doc/cockpit-composer
/usr/share/doc/cockpit-composer/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/cockpit-composer
/usr/share/licenses/cockpit-composer/LICENSE.txt
/usr/share/metainfo/io.weldr.cockpit-composer.metainfo.xml

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cockpit-composer on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.