How To Install appliance-tools on AlmaLinux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install appliance-tools in AlmaLinux 8. appliance-tools is Tools for building Appliances

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install appliance-tools on AlmaLinux 8.

What is appliance-tools

Tools for generating appliance images on Fedora based systems, including derived distributions such as RHEL, CentOS, and others.

We can use yum or dnf to install appliance-tools on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install appliance-tools.

Install appliance-tools on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install appliance-tools

Install appliance-tools on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install appliance-tools

How To Uninstall appliance-tools on AlmaLinux 8

To uninstall only the appliance-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove appliance-tools

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install appliance-tools on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.