How To Install rhsm-icons on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rhsm-icons on CentOS 8.
What is rhsm-icons
This package contains the desktop icons for the graphical interfaces provided for management of Red Hat subscriptions. There are many such interfaces, subscription-manager-gui, subscription-manager-initial-setup-addon, and subscription-manager-cockpit-plugin primarily.
We can use yum or dnf to install rhsm-icons on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rhsm-icons.
Install rhsm-icons 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 rhsm-icons using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install rhsm-icons
Install rhsm-icons 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 rhsm-icons using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install rhsm-icons
How To Uninstall rhsm-icons on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the rhsm-icons package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove rhsm-icons
rhsm-icons Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/subscription-manager.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/symbolic/apps/subscription-manager-symbolic.svg
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rhsm-icons on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.