How To Install cockpit-storaged on CentOS 8

cockpit-storaged is Cockpit user interface for storage, using udisks

Introduction

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

What is cockpit-storaged

The Cockpit component for managing storage. This package uses udisks.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install cockpit-storaged

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

sudo yum -y install cockpit-storaged

How To Uninstall cockpit-storaged on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove cockpit-storaged

cockpit-storaged Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/share/cockpit/storaged
/usr/share/cockpit/storaged/images
/usr/share/cockpit/storaged/images/storage-array.png
/usr/share/cockpit/storaged/images/storage-disk.png
/usr/share/cockpit/storaged/index.html.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/storaged/manifest.json
/usr/share/cockpit/storaged/po.cs.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/storaged/po.de.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/storaged/po.es.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/storaged/po.fi.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/storaged/po.fr.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/storaged/po.he.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/storaged/po.it.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/storaged/po.ja.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/storaged/po.ko.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/storaged/po.nl.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/storaged/po.pl.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/storaged/po.pt_BR.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/storaged/po.ru.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/storaged/po.sk.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/storaged/po.sv.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/storaged/po.tr.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/storaged/po.uk.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/storaged/po.zh_CN.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/storaged/po.zh_TW.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/storaged/storage.css.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/storaged/storage.js.gz
/usr/share/metainfo/org.cockpit-project.cockpit-storaged.metainfo.xml

References

Summary

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