How To Install spacewalk-oscap on CentOS 8

spacewalk-oscap is OpenSCAP plug-in for rhn-check

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install spacewalk-oscap on CentOS 8.

What is spacewalk-oscap

spacewalk-oscap is a plug-in for rhn-check. With this plugin, user is able to run OpenSCAP scan from Spacewalk or Red Hat Satellite server.

We can use yum or dnf to install spacewalk-oscap on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install spacewalk-oscap.

Install spacewalk-oscap 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 spacewalk-oscap using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install spacewalk-oscap

Install spacewalk-oscap 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 spacewalk-oscap using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install spacewalk-oscap

How To Uninstall spacewalk-oscap on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the spacewalk-oscap package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove spacewalk-oscap

spacewalk-oscap Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/sysconfig/rhn/clientCaps.d/scap
/usr/share/openscap/xsl/xccdf-resume.xslt

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install spacewalk-oscap on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.