How To Install cockpit-machines on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cockpit-machines on CentOS 8.
What is cockpit-machines
The Cockpit components for managing virtual machines. If “virt-install” is installed, you can also create new virtual machines.
We can use yum or dnf to install cockpit-machines on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cockpit-machines.
Install cockpit-machines 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 cockpit-machines using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install cockpit-machines
Install cockpit-machines 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 cockpit-machines using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install cockpit-machines
How To Uninstall cockpit-machines on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the cockpit-machines package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove cockpit-machines
cockpit-machines Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/share/cockpit/machines
/usr/share/cockpit/machines/index.html.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/machines/machines.css.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/machines/machines.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/machines/manifest.json
/usr/share/cockpit/machines/po.cs.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/machines/po.de.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/machines/po.es.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/machines/po.fi.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/machines/po.fr.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/machines/po.he.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/machines/po.it.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/machines/po.ja.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/machines/po.ko.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/machines/po.nl.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/machines/po.pl.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/machines/po.pt_BR.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/machines/po.ru.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/machines/po.sk.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/machines/po.sv.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/machines/po.tr.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/machines/po.uk.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/machines/po.zh_CN.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/machines/po.zh_TW.js.gz
/usr/share/metainfo/org.cockpit-project.cockpit-machines.metainfo.xml
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cockpit-machines on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.