How To Install yum-cron.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install yum-cron.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. yum-cron.noarch is Files needed to run yum updates as a cron job

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install yum-cron.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `yum-cron.noarch`

These are the files needed to run yum updates as a cron job. Install this package if you want auto yum updates nightly via cron.

We can use yum to install yum-cron.noarch on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install yum-cron.noarch.

Install yum-cron.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install yum-cron.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install yum-cron.noarch

How To Uninstall yum-cron.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the yum-cron.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove yum-cron.noarch

yum-cron.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/cron.daily/0yum-daily.cron
/etc/cron.hourly/0yum-hourly.cron
/etc/yum/yum-cron-hourly.conf
/etc/yum/yum-cron.conf
/usr/lib/systemd/system/yum-cron.service
/usr/sbin/yum-cron
/usr/share/doc/yum-cron-3.4.3
/usr/share/doc/yum-cron-3.4.3/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/yum-cron.8

References

yum-cron.noarch website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install yum-cron.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.