How To Install dnf-automatic on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dnf-automatic on CentOS 8.
What is dnf-automatic
Systemd units that can periodically download package upgrades and apply them.
We can use yum or dnf to install dnf-automatic on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dnf-automatic.
Install dnf-automatic 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 dnf-automatic using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install dnf-automatic
Install dnf-automatic 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 dnf-automatic using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install dnf-automatic
How To Uninstall dnf-automatic on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the dnf-automatic package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove dnf-automatic
dnf-automatic Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/dnf/automatic.conf
/usr/bin/dnf-automatic
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf/automatic
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf/automatic/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf/automatic/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf/automatic/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf/automatic/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf/automatic/__pycache__/emitter.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf/automatic/__pycache__/emitter.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf/automatic/__pycache__/main.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf/automatic/__pycache__/main.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf/automatic/emitter.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf/automatic/main.py
/usr/lib/systemd/system/dnf-automatic-download.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/dnf-automatic-download.timer
/usr/lib/systemd/system/dnf-automatic-install.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/dnf-automatic-install.timer
/usr/lib/systemd/system/dnf-automatic-notifyonly.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/dnf-automatic-notifyonly.timer
/usr/lib/systemd/system/dnf-automatic.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/dnf-automatic.timer
/usr/share/man/man8/dnf-automatic.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dnf-automatic on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.