How To Install yum-utils on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install yum-utils on CentOS 8.
What is yum-utils
As a Yum-utils CLI compatibility layer, supplies in CLI shims for debuginfo-install, repograph, package-cleanup, repoclosure, repomanage, repoquery, reposync, repotrack, repodiff, builddep, config-manager, debug, download and yum-groups-manager that use new implementations using DNF.
We can use yum or dnf to install yum-utils on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install yum-utils.
Install yum-utils 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 yum-utils using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install yum-utils
Install yum-utils 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 yum-utils using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install yum-utils
How To Uninstall yum-utils on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the yum-utils package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove yum-utils
yum-utils Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/debuginfo-install
/usr/bin/find-repos-of-install
/usr/bin/needs-restarting
/usr/bin/package-cleanup
/usr/bin/repo-graph
/usr/bin/repoclosure
/usr/bin/repodiff
/usr/bin/repomanage
/usr/bin/repoquery
/usr/bin/reposync
/usr/bin/repotrack
/usr/bin/yum-builddep
/usr/bin/yum-config-manager
/usr/bin/yum-debug-dump
/usr/bin/yum-debug-restore
/usr/bin/yum-groups-manager
/usr/bin/yumdownloader
/usr/libexec/dnf-utils
/usr/share/man/man1/debuginfo-install.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/dnf-utils.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/find-repos-of-install.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/needs-restarting.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/package-cleanup.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/repo-graph.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/repoclosure.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/repodiff.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/repomanage.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/repoquery.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/reposync.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/repotrack.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/yum-builddep.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/yum-config-manager.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/yum-debug-dump.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/yum-debug-restore.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/yum-groups-manager.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/yum-utils.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/yumdownloader.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install yum-utils on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.