How To Install PackageKit-cron on CentOS 7

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install PackageKit-cron on CentOS 7.

What is PackageKit-cron

Crontab and utilities for running PackageKit as a cron job.

We can use yum or dnf to install PackageKit-cron on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install PackageKit-cron.

Install PackageKit-cron on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install PackageKit-cron using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install PackageKit-cron

Install PackageKit-cron on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install PackageKit-cron using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install PackageKit-cron

How To Uninstall PackageKit-cron on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the PackageKit-cron package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove PackageKit-cron

References

• PackageKit-cron website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install PackageKit-cron on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.