How To Install rpmfusion-free-release on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rpmfusion-free-release on Rocky Linux 8.
What is rpmfusion-free-release
RPM Fusion repository contains open source and other distributable software for EL + EPEL. It is the merger of the Dribble, FreshRPMs and Livna repositories. This package contains the RPM Fusion GPG key as well as Yum package manager configuration files for RPM Fusion’s “free” repository, which holds only software that is considered as Open Source Software according to the Fedora packaging guidelines.
We can use yum or dnf to install rpmfusion-free-release on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rpmfusion-free-release.
Install rpmfusion-free-release 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 rpmfusion-free-release using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install rpmfusion-free-release
Install rpmfusion-free-release 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 rpmfusion-free-release using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install rpmfusion-free-release
How To Uninstall rpmfusion-free-release on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the rpmfusion-free-release package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove rpmfusion-free-release
rpmfusion-free-release Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-free-el-8
/etc/yum.repos.d/rpmfusion-free-updates-testing.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/rpmfusion-free-updates.repo
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rpmfusion-free-release on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.
