How To Install appliance-tools on CentOS 8

appliance-tools is Tools for building Appliances

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install appliance-tools on CentOS 8.

What is appliance-tools

Tools for generating appliance images on Fedora based systems, including derived distributions such as RHEL, CentOS, and others.

We can use yum or dnf to install appliance-tools on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install appliance-tools.

Install appliance-tools on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install appliance-tools using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install appliance-tools

Install appliance-tools on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install appliance-tools using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install appliance-tools

How To Uninstall appliance-tools on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the appliance-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove appliance-tools

appliance-tools Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/appliance-creator
/usr/bin/ec2-converter
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/appcreate
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/appcreate/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/appcreate/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/appcreate/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/appcreate/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/appcreate/__pycache__/appliance.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/appcreate/__pycache__/appliance.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/appcreate/__pycache__/partitionedfs.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/appcreate/__pycache__/partitionedfs.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/appcreate/appliance.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/appcreate/partitionedfs.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ec2convert
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ec2convert/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ec2convert/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ec2convert/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ec2convert/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ec2convert/__pycache__/ec2config.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ec2convert/__pycache__/ec2config.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ec2convert/__pycache__/fs.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ec2convert/__pycache__/fs.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ec2convert/__pycache__/rpmcheck.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ec2convert/__pycache__/rpmcheck.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ec2convert/ec2config.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ec2convert/fs.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ec2convert/rpmcheck.py
/usr/share/doc/appliance-tools
/usr/share/doc/appliance-tools/README
/usr/share/doc/appliance-tools/fedora-aos.ks
/usr/share/licenses/appliance-tools
/usr/share/licenses/appliance-tools/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/appliance-creator.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ec2-converter.8.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install appliance-tools on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.