How To Install journal-brief on AlmaLinux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install journal-brief in AlmaLinux 8. journal-brief is Show interesting new systemd journal entries since last run

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install journal-brief on AlmaLinux 8.

What is journal-brief

Run this from cron to get a daily or hourly briefing of interesting new systemd journal entries.

We can use yum or dnf to install journal-brief on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install journal-brief.

Install journal-brief on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install journal-brief

Install journal-brief on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install journal-brief

How To Uninstall journal-brief on AlmaLinux 8

To uninstall only the journal-brief package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove journal-brief

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install journal-brief on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.