How To Install device-mapper-event on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install device-mapper-event on CentOS 8.
What is device-mapper-event
This package contains the dmeventd daemon for monitoring the state of device-mapper devices.
We can use yum or dnf to install device-mapper-event on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install device-mapper-event.
Install device-mapper-event 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 device-mapper-event using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install device-mapper-event
Install device-mapper-event 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 device-mapper-event using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install device-mapper-event
How To Uninstall device-mapper-event on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the device-mapper-event package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove device-mapper-event
device-mapper-event Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/45/ffede3d41c7705061eb08bf69c674c9e322270
/usr/lib/systemd/system/dm-event.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/dm-event.socket
/usr/sbin/dmeventd
/usr/share/man/man8/dmeventd.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install device-mapper-event on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.