How To Install base on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install base on CentOS 7. base is

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install base on CentOS 7.

What is base

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

Install base on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install base

Install base 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 base using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install base

How To Uninstall base on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove base

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Summary

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