How To Install ansible-collection-community-general on CentOS 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install ansible-collection-community-general on CentOS 8. ansible-collection-community-general is Modules and plugins supported by Ansible community

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ansible-collection-community-general on CentOS 8.

What is ansible-collection-community-general

Modules and plugins supported by Ansible community.

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

Install ansible-collection-community-general on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install ansible-collection-community-general using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ansible-collection-community-general

Install ansible-collection-community-general on CentOS 8 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 ansible-collection-community-general using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ansible-collection-community-general

How To Uninstall ansible-collection-community-general on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the ansible-collection-community-general package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove ansible-collection-community-general

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ansible-collection-community-general on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.