How To Install python3-dnf-plugin-versionlock on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-dnf-plugin-versionlock
on Rocky Linux 8.
What is python3-dnf-plugin-versionlock
Version lock plugin takes a set of name/versions for packages and excludes all other versions of those packages. This allows you to e.g. protect packages from being updated by newer versions.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install python3-dnf-plugin-versionlock
on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install python3-dnf-plugin-versionlock.
Install python3-dnf-plugin-versionlock 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 python3-dnf-plugin-versionlock
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install python3-dnf-plugin-versionlock
Install python3-dnf-plugin-versionlock 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 python3-dnf-plugin-versionlock
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install python3-dnf-plugin-versionlock
How To Uninstall python3-dnf-plugin-versionlock on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the python3-dnf-plugin-versionlock
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove python3-dnf-plugin-versionlock
python3-dnf-plugin-versionlock Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/etc/dnf/plugins/versionlock.conf
/etc/dnf/plugins/versionlock.list
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf-plugins/__pycache__/versionlock.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf-plugins/__pycache__/versionlock.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf-plugins/versionlock.py
/usr/share/man/man5/yum-versionlock.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/dnf-versionlock.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/yum-versionlock.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-dnf-plugin-versionlock
on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.