How To Install spacewalk-client-cert on Rocky Linux 8

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install spacewalk-client-cert on Rocky Linux 8.

What is spacewalk-client-cert

spacewalk-client-cert contains client side functionality allowing manipulation with Spacewalk client certificates (/etc/sysconfig/rhn/systemid)

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

Install spacewalk-client-cert 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 spacewalk-client-cert using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install spacewalk-client-cert

Install spacewalk-client-cert 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 spacewalk-client-cert using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install spacewalk-client-cert

How To Uninstall spacewalk-client-cert on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the spacewalk-client-cert package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove spacewalk-client-cert

spacewalk-client-cert Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/sysconfig/rhn/clientCaps.d/client-cert
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/rhn/actions/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/rhn/actions/__pycache__/clientcert.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/rhn/actions/__pycache__/clientcert.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/rhn/actions/clientcert.py

References

• spacewalk-client-cert website

Summary

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