How To Install containers-common on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install containers-common on Rocky Linux 8. containers-common is Configuration files for working with image signatures

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install containers-common on Rocky Linux 8.

What is containers-common

This package installs a default signature store configuration and a default policy under /etc/containers/.

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

Install containers-common 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 containers-common using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install containers-common

Install containers-common 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 containers-common using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install containers-common

How To Uninstall containers-common on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the containers-common package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove containers-common

containers-common Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/containers
/etc/containers/certs.d
/etc/containers/containers.conf
/etc/containers/oci
/etc/containers/oci/hooks.d
/etc/containers/policy.json
/etc/containers/registries.conf
/etc/containers/registries.conf.d
/etc/containers/registries.conf.d/000-shortnames.conf
/etc/containers/registries.conf.d/001-rhel-shortnames.conf
/etc/containers/registries.conf.d/002-rhel-shortnames-overrides.conf
/etc/containers/registries.d
/etc/containers/registries.d/default.yaml
/etc/containers/registries.d/registry.access.redhat.com.yaml
/etc/containers/registries.d/registry.redhat.io.yaml
/etc/containers/storage.conf
/usr/share/containers
/usr/share/containers/containers.conf
/usr/share/containers/mounts.conf
/usr/share/containers/seccomp.json
/usr/share/man/man5/containers-auth.json.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/containers-certs.d.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/containers-mounts.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/containers-policy.json.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/containers-registries.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/containers-registries.conf.d.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/containers-registries.d.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/containers-signature.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/containers-storage.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/containers-transports.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/containers.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/rhel/secrets
/usr/share/rhel/secrets/etc-pki-entitlement
/usr/share/rhel/secrets/redhat.repo
/usr/share/rhel/secrets/rhsm
/var/lib/containers/sigstore

References

Summary

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