How To Install cockpit-podman on CentOS 8

cockpit-podman is Cockpit component for Podman containers

Introduction

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

What is cockpit-podman

The Cockpit user interface for Podman containers.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install cockpit-podman

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

sudo yum -y install cockpit-podman

How To Uninstall cockpit-podman on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove cockpit-podman

cockpit-podman Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/share/cockpit/podman
/usr/share/cockpit/podman/index.css.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/podman/index.html.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/podman/index.js.LICENSE.txt
/usr/share/cockpit/podman/index.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/podman/index.js.map
/usr/share/cockpit/podman/manifest.json
/usr/share/cockpit/podman/po.cs.js
/usr/share/cockpit/podman/po.de.js
/usr/share/cockpit/podman/po.es.js
/usr/share/cockpit/podman/po.fr.js
/usr/share/cockpit/podman/po.pl.js
/usr/share/cockpit/podman/po.pt_BR.js
/usr/share/cockpit/podman/po.pt_PT.js
/usr/share/cockpit/podman/po.sk.js
/usr/share/cockpit/podman/po.sv.js
/usr/share/cockpit/podman/po.tr.js
/usr/share/cockpit/podman/po.uk.js
/usr/share/cockpit/podman/po.zh_CN.js
/usr/share/doc/cockpit-podman
/usr/share/doc/cockpit-podman/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/cockpit-podman
/usr/share/licenses/cockpit-podman/LICENSE
/usr/share/metainfo/org.cockpit-project.podman.metainfo.xml

References

Summary

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