How To Install cros-guest-tools on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cros-guest-tools on CentOS 8.
What is cros-guest-tools
This package has dependencies on all other packages necessary for Chromium OS integration.
We can use yum or dnf to install cros-guest-tools on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cros-guest-tools.
Install cros-guest-tools 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 cros-guest-tools using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install cros-guest-tools
Install cros-guest-tools 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 cros-guest-tools using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install cros-guest-tools
How To Uninstall cros-guest-tools on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the cros-guest-tools package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove cros-guest-tools
cros-guest-tools Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/skel/.config
/usr/share/doc/cros-guest-tools
/usr/share/doc/cros-guest-tools/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/cros-guest-tools
/usr/share/licenses/cros-guest-tools/LICENSE
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cros-guest-tools on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.