How To Install etckeeper-dnf on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install etckeeper-dnf on Rocky Linux 8. etckeeper-dnf is DNF plugin for etckeeper support

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install etckeeper-dnf on Rocky Linux 8.

What is etckeeper-dnf

This package provides a DNF plugin for etckeeper. If you want to use etckeeper with DNF, install this package.

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

Install etckeeper-dnf 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 etckeeper-dnf using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install etckeeper-dnf

Install etckeeper-dnf 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 etckeeper-dnf using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install etckeeper-dnf

How To Uninstall etckeeper-dnf on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the etckeeper-dnf package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove etckeeper-dnf

etckeeper-dnf Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf-plugins/__pycache__/etckeeper.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf-plugins/__pycache__/etckeeper.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf-plugins/etckeeper.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf_etckeeper-0.0.0-py3.6.egg-info

References

Summary

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