How To Install centos-release-kmods on CentOS 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install centos-release-kmods on CentOS 8. centos-release-kmods is CentOS Kmods SIG repository configs

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install centos-release-kmods on CentOS 8.

What is centos-release-kmods

Configs for the CentOS Kmods SIG main package repository.

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

Install centos-release-kmods on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install centos-release-kmods using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install centos-release-kmods

Install centos-release-kmods 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 centos-release-kmods using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install centos-release-kmods

How To Uninstall centos-release-kmods on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the centos-release-kmods package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove centos-release-kmods

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install centos-release-kmods on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.