How To Install cockpit-packagekit on CentOS 8

cockpit-packagekit is Cockpit user interface for packages

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cockpit-packagekit on CentOS 8.

What is `cockpit-packagekit`

The Cockpit components for installing OS updates and Cockpit add-ons, via PackageKit.

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

Install cockpit-packagekit 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-packagekit using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install cockpit-packagekit

Install cockpit-packagekit 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-packagekit using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cockpit-packagekit

How To Uninstall cockpit-packagekit on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the cockpit-packagekit package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove cockpit-packagekit

cockpit-packagekit Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/share/cockpit/apps
/usr/share/cockpit/apps/apps.css.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/apps/apps.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/apps/default.png
/usr/share/cockpit/apps/index.html.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/apps/manifest.json
/usr/share/cockpit/apps/po.cs.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/apps/po.de.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/apps/po.es.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/apps/po.fi.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/apps/po.fr.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/apps/po.he.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/apps/po.it.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/apps/po.ja.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/apps/po.ko.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/apps/po.nl.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/apps/po.pl.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/apps/po.pt_BR.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/apps/po.ru.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/apps/po.sk.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/apps/po.sv.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/apps/po.tr.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/apps/po.uk.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/apps/po.zh_CN.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/apps/po.zh_TW.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/packagekit
/usr/share/cockpit/packagekit/index.html.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/packagekit/manifest.json
/usr/share/cockpit/packagekit/po.cs.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/packagekit/po.de.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/packagekit/po.es.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/packagekit/po.fi.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/packagekit/po.fr.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/packagekit/po.he.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/packagekit/po.it.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/packagekit/po.ja.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/packagekit/po.ko.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/packagekit/po.nl.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/packagekit/po.pl.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/packagekit/po.pt_BR.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/packagekit/po.ru.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/packagekit/po.sk.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/packagekit/po.sv.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/packagekit/po.tr.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/packagekit/po.uk.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/packagekit/po.zh_CN.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/packagekit/po.zh_TW.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/packagekit/updates.css.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/packagekit/updates.js.gz

References

cockpit-packagekit website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cockpit-packagekit on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.