How To Install microdnf on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install microdnf on CentOS 8.
What is microdnf
Micro DNF is a very minimal C implementation of DNF’s install, upgrade, remove, repolist, and clean commands, designed to be used for doing simple packaging actions in containers when you don’t need full-blown DNF and you want the tiniest useful containers possible. That is, you don’t want any interpreter stack and you want the most minimal environment possible so you can build up to exactly what you need. This is not a substitute for DNF for real systems, and many of DNF’s capabilities are intentionally not implemented in Micro DNF.
We can use yum or dnf to install microdnf on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install microdnf.
Install microdnf 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 microdnf using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install microdnf
Install microdnf 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 microdnf using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install microdnf
How To Uninstall microdnf on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the microdnf package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove microdnf
microdnf Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/microdnf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c5
/usr/lib/.build-id/c5/e36427eb66ded9e39fd808ab6d0d4f708666cd
/usr/share/doc/microdnf
/usr/share/doc/microdnf/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/microdnf
/usr/share/licenses/microdnf/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/microdnf.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install microdnf on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.