How To Install device-mapper on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install device-mapper on CentOS 8.
What is device-mapper
This package contains the supporting userspace utility, dmsetup, for the kernel 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 8. 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 8 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 8 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 8
To uninstall only the device-mapper package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove device-mapper
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install device-mapper on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.