How To Install cockpit-session-recording on CentOS 8

cockpit-session-recording is Cockpit Session Recording

Introduction

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

What is cockpit-session-recording

Cockpit module providing session recording configuration and playback. This module allows viewing and playback of journal-stored terminal session recordings generated by the tlog component.

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

Install cockpit-session-recording 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-session-recording using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install cockpit-session-recording

Install cockpit-session-recording 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-session-recording using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cockpit-session-recording

How To Uninstall cockpit-session-recording on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove cockpit-session-recording

cockpit-session-recording Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/share/cockpit/session-recording
/usr/share/cockpit/session-recording/index.css
/usr/share/cockpit/session-recording/index.css.map
/usr/share/cockpit/session-recording/index.html
/usr/share/cockpit/session-recording/index.js
/usr/share/cockpit/session-recording/index.js.map
/usr/share/cockpit/session-recording/manifest.json
/usr/share/cockpit/session-recording/po.de.js
/usr/share/metainfo/org.cockpit-project.session-recording.metainfo.xml

References

Summary

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