How To Install centos-stream-repos on CentOS 8

centos-stream-repos is CentOS Stream package repositories

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install centos-stream-repos on CentOS 8.

What is centos-stream-repos

This package provides the package repository files for CentOS Stream.

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

Install centos-stream-repos 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-stream-repos using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install centos-stream-repos

Install centos-stream-repos 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-stream-repos using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install centos-stream-repos

How To Uninstall centos-stream-repos on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the centos-stream-repos package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove centos-stream-repos

centos-stream-repos Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/dnf/vars/contentdir
/etc/dnf/vars/infra
/etc/dnf/vars/stream
/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Stream-AppStream.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Stream-BaseOS.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Stream-Debuginfo.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Stream-Extras.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Stream-HighAvailability.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Stream-Media.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Stream-PowerTools.repo
/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Stream-RealTime.repo
/usr/share/licenses/centos-stream-repos
/usr/share/licenses/centos-stream-repos/LICENSE

References

Summary

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