How To Install rocky-obsolete-packages on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rocky-obsolete-packages
on Rocky Linux 8.
What is rocky-obsolete-packages
This package exists only to obsolete other packages which need to be removed from the distribution for some reason. Currently obsoleted packages rpm < 4.14.2-11.el8_0 binutils < 2.30-58.el8.0.1 which < 2.21-12.el8 (See https
We can use yum
or dnf
to install rocky-obsolete-packages
on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rocky-obsolete-packages.
Install rocky-obsolete-packages 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 rocky-obsolete-packages
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install rocky-obsolete-packages
Install rocky-obsolete-packages 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 rocky-obsolete-packages
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install rocky-obsolete-packages
How To Uninstall rocky-obsolete-packages on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the rocky-obsolete-packages
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove rocky-obsolete-packages
rocky-obsolete-packages Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/share/doc/rocky-obsolete-packages
/usr/share/doc/rocky-obsolete-packages/README
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rocky-obsolete-packages
on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.