How To Install imagefactory-plugins on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install imagefactory-plugins on CentOS 7. imagefactory-plugins is Default plugins for the Image Factory system image generation tool

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install imagefactory-plugins on CentOS 7.

What is imagefactory-plugins

This is a placeholder top level package for a collection of plugins for the Image Factory cloud system image generation tool. imagefactory allows the creation of system images for multiple virtualization and cloud providers from a single template definition. See http more information.

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

Install imagefactory-plugins on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install imagefactory-plugins

Install imagefactory-plugins 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 imagefactory-plugins using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install imagefactory-plugins

How To Uninstall imagefactory-plugins on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the imagefactory-plugins package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove imagefactory-plugins

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Summary

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