How To Install dnf-plugin-ovl on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dnf-plugin-ovl on CentOS 8.
What is dnf-plugin-ovl
Workaround to run dnf on overlayfs. A port of yum-plugin-ovl to dnf.
We can use yum or dnf to install dnf-plugin-ovl on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dnf-plugin-ovl.
Install dnf-plugin-ovl 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-plugin-ovl using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install dnf-plugin-ovl
Install dnf-plugin-ovl 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-plugin-ovl using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install dnf-plugin-ovl
How To Uninstall dnf-plugin-ovl on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the dnf-plugin-ovl package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove dnf-plugin-ovl
dnf-plugin-ovl Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf-plugins/__pycache__/ovl.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf-plugins/__pycache__/ovl.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dnf-plugins/ovl.py
/usr/share/doc/dnf-plugin-ovl
/usr/share/doc/dnf-plugin-ovl/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/dnf-plugin-ovl
/usr/share/licenses/dnf-plugin-ovl/LICENSE
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dnf-plugin-ovl on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.