How To Install cockpit-dashboard on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install cockpit-dashboard on CentOS 7. cockpit-dashboard is Cockpit remote servers and dashboard

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cockpit-dashboard on CentOS 7.

What is cockpit-dashboard

Cockpit support for connecting to remote servers (through ssh), bastion hosts, and a basic dashboard.

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

Install cockpit-dashboard on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install cockpit-dashboard

Install cockpit-dashboard 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 cockpit-dashboard using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install cockpit-dashboard

How To Uninstall cockpit-dashboard on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the cockpit-dashboard package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove cockpit-dashboard

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Summary

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