How To Install auter on CentOS 8

auter is Prepare and apply updates

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install auter on CentOS 8.

What is auter

auter (optionally) pre-downloads updates and then runs automatically on a set schedule, optionally rebooting to finish applying the updates.

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

Install auter 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 auter using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install auter

Install auter 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 auter using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install auter

How To Uninstall auter on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the auter package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove auter

auter Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/auter
/etc/auter/auter.conf
/etc/auter/post-apply.d
/etc/auter/post-prep.d
/etc/auter/post-reboot.d
/etc/auter/pre-apply.d
/etc/auter/pre-prep.d
/etc/auter/pre-reboot.d
/etc/cron.d/auter
/run/auter
/run/auter/auter.pid
/usr/bin/auter
/usr/lib/auter
/usr/lib/auter/auter.module
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/auter.conf
/usr/share/doc/auter
/usr/share/doc/auter/MAINTAINERS.md
/usr/share/doc/auter/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/auter/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/auter
/usr/share/licenses/auter/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/auter.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/auter.conf.5.gz
/var/cache/auter
/var/lib/auter

References

Summary

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