How To Install cockpit-podman on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install cockpit-podman on Rocky Linux 8. cockpit-podman is Cockpit component for Podman containers

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cockpit-podman on Rocky Linux 8.

What is cockpit-podman

The Cockpit user interface for Podman containers.

We can use yum or dnf to install cockpit-podman on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cockpit-podman.

Install cockpit-podman on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install cockpit-podman

Install cockpit-podman on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install cockpit-podman

How To Uninstall cockpit-podman on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove cockpit-podman

cockpit-podman Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/share/cockpit/podman
/usr/share/cockpit/podman/index.css.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/podman/index.html.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/podman/index.js.LICENSE.txt
/usr/share/cockpit/podman/index.js.gz
/usr/share/cockpit/podman/index.js.map
/usr/share/cockpit/podman/manifest.json
/usr/share/cockpit/podman/po.cs.js
/usr/share/cockpit/podman/po.de.js
/usr/share/cockpit/podman/po.es.js
/usr/share/cockpit/podman/po.fr.js
/usr/share/cockpit/podman/po.pl.js
/usr/share/cockpit/podman/po.pt_BR.js
/usr/share/cockpit/podman/po.pt_PT.js
/usr/share/cockpit/podman/po.sk.js
/usr/share/cockpit/podman/po.sv.js
/usr/share/cockpit/podman/po.tr.js
/usr/share/cockpit/podman/po.uk.js
/usr/share/cockpit/podman/po.zh_CN.js
/usr/share/doc/cockpit-podman
/usr/share/doc/cockpit-podman/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/cockpit-podman
/usr/share/licenses/cockpit-podman/LICENSE
/usr/share/metainfo/org.cockpit-project.podman.metainfo.xml

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cockpit-podman on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.