How To Install device-mapper on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install device-mapper
on CentOS 7.
What is device-mapper
This package contains the supporting userspace utility, dmsetup, for the kernel device-mapper.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install device-mapper
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install device-mapper.
Install device-mapper on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install device-mapper
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install device-mapper
Install device-mapper 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 device-mapper
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install device-mapper
How To Uninstall device-mapper on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the device-mapper
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove device-mapper
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install device-mapper
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.