How To Install ara on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install ara on Rocky Linux 8. ara is Records Ansible playbooks and makes them easier to understand and troubleshoot

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ara on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `ara`

Records Ansible playbooks and makes them easier to understand and troubleshoot

We can use yum or dnf to install ara on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ara.

Install ara on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install ara

Install ara on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install ara using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ara

How To Uninstall ara on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the ara package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove ara

ara Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/share/doc/ara
/usr/share/doc/ara/README.rst
/usr/share/licenses/ara
/usr/share/licenses/ara/LICENSE

References

ara website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ara on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.