How To Install centos-release-ovirt44 on CentOS 8

centos-release-ovirt44 is oVirt 4.4 packages from the CentOS Virtualization SIG repository

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install centos-release-ovirt44 on CentOS 8.

What is centos-release-ovirt44

yum configuration and basic docs for oVirt 4.4 packages as delivered via the CentOS Virtualization SIG.

We can use yum or dnf to install centos-release-ovirt44 on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install centos-release-ovirt44.

Install centos-release-ovirt44 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-ovirt44 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install centos-release-ovirt44

Install centos-release-ovirt44 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-ovirt44 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install centos-release-ovirt44

How To Uninstall centos-release-ovirt44 on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the centos-release-ovirt44 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove centos-release-ovirt44

centos-release-ovirt44 Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-oVirt-4.4.repo
/usr/share/licenses/centos-release-ovirt44
/usr/share/licenses/centos-release-ovirt44/COPYING

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install centos-release-ovirt44 on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.