How To Install ec2-hibinit-agent on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ec2-hibinit-agent on CentOS 8.
What is ec2-hibinit-agent
An EC2 agent that creates a setup for instance hibernation
We can use yum or dnf to install ec2-hibinit-agent on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ec2-hibinit-agent.
Install ec2-hibinit-agent 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 ec2-hibinit-agent using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ec2-hibinit-agent
Install ec2-hibinit-agent 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 ec2-hibinit-agent using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install ec2-hibinit-agent
How To Uninstall ec2-hibinit-agent on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the ec2-hibinit-agent package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ec2-hibinit-agent
ec2-hibinit-agent Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/acpi/actions/sleep.sh
/etc/acpi/events/sleepconf
/etc/hibinit-config.cfg
/etc/tuned/nothp_profile
/etc/tuned/nothp_profile/tuned.conf
/usr/bin/hibinit-agent
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ec2_hibinit_agent-1.0.2-py3.6.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ec2_hibinit_agent-1.0.2-py3.6.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ec2_hibinit_agent-1.0.2-py3.6.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ec2_hibinit_agent-1.0.2-py3.6.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ec2_hibinit_agent-1.0.2-py3.6.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/systemd/logind.conf.d
/usr/lib/systemd/logind.conf.d/00-hibinit-agent.conf
/usr/lib/systemd/system-sleep
/usr/lib/systemd/system-sleep/sleep-handler.sh
/usr/lib/systemd/system/hibinit-agent.service
/usr/share/doc/ec2-hibinit-agent
/usr/share/doc/ec2-hibinit-agent/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/ec2-hibinit-agent
/usr/share/licenses/ec2-hibinit-agent/LICENSE.txt
/usr/share/selinux/packages/ec2hibernatepolicy.pp.bz2
/var/lib/hibinit-agent
/var/lib/hibinit-agent/hibernation-enabled
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ec2-hibinit-agent on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.