How To Install tuned-profiles-atomic on CentOS 8

tuned-profiles-atomic is Additional tuned profile(s) targeted to Atomic

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tuned-profiles-atomic on CentOS 8.

What is tuned-profiles-atomic

Additional tuned profile(s) targeted to Atomic host and guest.

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

Install tuned-profiles-atomic 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 tuned-profiles-atomic using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install tuned-profiles-atomic

Install tuned-profiles-atomic 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 tuned-profiles-atomic using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install tuned-profiles-atomic

How To Uninstall tuned-profiles-atomic on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the tuned-profiles-atomic package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove tuned-profiles-atomic

tuned-profiles-atomic Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/tuned/atomic-guest
/usr/lib/tuned/atomic-guest/tuned.conf
/usr/lib/tuned/atomic-host
/usr/lib/tuned/atomic-host/tuned.conf
/usr/share/man/man7/tuned-profiles-atomic.7.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install tuned-profiles-atomic on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.