How To Install centos-release-gluster8 on CentOS 8

centos-release-gluster8 is Gluster 8 packages from the CentOS Storage SIG repository

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install centos-release-gluster8 on CentOS 8.

What is centos-release-gluster8

DNF configuration for Gluster 8 packages from the CentOS Storage SIG. Gluster 8 will receive updates for approximately 12 months. For more details about the release and maintenance schedule, see https

We can use yum or dnf to install centos-release-gluster8 on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install centos-release-gluster8.

Install centos-release-gluster8 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-release-gluster8 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install centos-release-gluster8

Install centos-release-gluster8 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-release-gluster8 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install centos-release-gluster8

How To Uninstall centos-release-gluster8 on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the centos-release-gluster8 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove centos-release-gluster8

centos-release-gluster8 Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Gluster-8.repo
/usr/lib/systemd/system-preset/75-gluster.preset

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install centos-release-gluster8 on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.