How To Install centos-obsolete-packages on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install centos-obsolete-packages on CentOS 8.
What is centos-obsolete-packages
This package exists only to obsolete other packages which need to be removed from the distribution for some reason. Currently obsoleted packages rpm < 4.14.2-11.el8_0 binutils < 2.30-58.el8.0.1 which < 2.21-12.el8 (See https
We can use yum or dnf to install centos-obsolete-packages on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install centos-obsolete-packages.
Install centos-obsolete-packages 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 centos-obsolete-packages using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install centos-obsolete-packages
Install centos-obsolete-packages 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 centos-obsolete-packages using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install centos-obsolete-packages
How To Uninstall centos-obsolete-packages on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the centos-obsolete-packages package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove centos-obsolete-packages
centos-obsolete-packages Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/share/doc/centos-obsolete-packages
/usr/share/doc/centos-obsolete-packages/README
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install centos-obsolete-packages on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.