How To Install elrepo-release on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install elrepo-release on CentOS 8.
What is elrepo-release
This package contains yum configuration for the ELRepo.org Community Enterprise Linux Repository, as well as the public GPG keys used to sign packages.
We can use yum or dnf to install elrepo-release on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install elrepo-release.
Install elrepo-release 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 elrepo-release using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install elrepo-release
Install elrepo-release 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 elrepo-release using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install elrepo-release
How To Uninstall elrepo-release on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the elrepo-release package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove elrepo-release
elrepo-release Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/pki/elrepo
/etc/pki/elrepo/SECURE-BOOT-KEY-elrepo.org.der
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg
/etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-elrepo.org
/etc/yum.repos.d
/etc/yum.repos.d/elrepo.repo
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install elrepo-release on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.