How To Install subscription-manager-migration on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install subscription-manager-migration on CentOS 8.
What is subscription-manager-migration
This package contains scripts that aid in moving to certificate based subscriptions
We can use yum or dnf to install subscription-manager-migration on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install subscription-manager-migration.
Install subscription-manager-migration 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 subscription-manager-migration using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install subscription-manager-migration
Install subscription-manager-migration 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 subscription-manager-migration using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install subscription-manager-migration
How To Uninstall subscription-manager-migration on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the subscription-manager-migration package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove subscription-manager-migration
subscription-manager-migration Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/subscription_manager/migrate
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/subscription_manager/migrate/__init__.py
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/subscription_manager/migrate/__pycache__
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/subscription_manager/migrate/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/subscription_manager/migrate/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/subscription_manager/migrate/__pycache__/migrate.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/subscription_manager/migrate/__pycache__/migrate.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/subscription_manager/migrate/migrate.py
/usr/sbin/rhn-migrate-classic-to-rhsm
/usr/share/doc/subscription-manager-migration
/usr/share/doc/subscription-manager-migration/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man8/rhn-migrate-classic-to-rhsm.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install subscription-manager-migration on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.