How To Install cockpit-machines on CentOS 8

cockpit-machines is Cockpit user interface for virtual machines

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.