How To Install centos-release-stream on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install centos-release-stream on CentOS 8.
What is centos-release-stream
CentOS-Stream release files
We can use yum or dnf to install centos-release-stream on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install centos-release-stream.
Install centos-release-stream 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-stream using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install centos-release-stream
Install centos-release-stream 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-stream using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install centos-release-stream
How To Uninstall centos-release-stream on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the centos-release-stream package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove centos-release-stream
centos-release-stream Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/dnf/vars/stream
/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Stream-AppStream.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Stream-Base.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Stream-Debuginfo.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Stream-Extras.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Stream-Media.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Stream-PowerTools.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Stream-Sources.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Stream-Vault.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Stream-centosplus.repo
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install centos-release-stream on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.