How To Install rocky-obsolete-packages on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install rocky-obsolete-packages on Rocky Linux 8. rocky-obsolete-packages is A package to obsolete retired packages

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.