How To Install centos-release-xen-common on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install centos-release-xen-common on CentOS 7.
What is centos-release-xen-common
This contains the grub-bootxen.sh helper-script which enables the xen package to add itself to grub automatically.
We can use yum or dnf to install centos-release-xen-common on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install centos-release-xen-common.
Install centos-release-xen-common on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install centos-release-xen-common using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install centos-release-xen-common
Install centos-release-xen-common 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 centos-release-xen-common using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install centos-release-xen-common
How To Uninstall centos-release-xen-common on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the centos-release-xen-common package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove centos-release-xen-common
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install centos-release-xen-common on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
