How To Install yum-NetworkManager-dispatcher.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install yum-NetworkManager-dispatcher.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. yum-NetworkManager-dispatcher.noarch is NetworkManager script which tells yum to check its cache on

Introduction

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

What is yum-NetworkManager-dispatcher.noarch

This NetworkManager “dispatch script” forces yum to check its cache if/when a new network connection happens in NetworkManager. Note that currently there is no checking of previous data, so if your WiFi keeps going up and down (or you suspend/resume a lot) yum will recheck its cached data a lot.

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

Install yum-NetworkManager-dispatcher.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-NetworkManager-dispatcher.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install yum-NetworkManager-dispatcher.noarch

How To Uninstall yum-NetworkManager-dispatcher.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove yum-NetworkManager-dispatcher.noarch

yum-NetworkManager-dispatcher.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/yum-NetworkManager-dispatcher
/usr/share/doc/yum-NetworkManager-dispatcher-1.1.31
/usr/share/doc/yum-NetworkManager-dispatcher-1.1.31/COPYING

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Summary

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