How To Install cockpit-machines on CentOS 7

Introduction

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

What is cockpit-machines

The Cockpit components for managing virtual machines. If “virt-install” is installed, you can also create new virtual machines. The Cockpit components for managing virtual machines. If “virt-install” is installed, you can also create new virtual machines.

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

Install cockpit-machines 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-machines using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cockpit-machines

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

sudo dnf -y install cockpit-machines

How To Uninstall cockpit-machines on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove cockpit-machines

References

• cockpit-machines website

Summary

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