How To Install nmstate on CentOS 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install nmstate on CentOS 8. nmstate is Declarative network manager API

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install nmstate on CentOS 8.

What is nmstate

Nmstate is a library with an accompanying command line tool that manages host networking settings in a declarative manner and aimed to satisfy enterprise needs to manage host networking through a northbound declarative API and multi provider support on the southbound.

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

Install nmstate on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install nmstate using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install nmstate

Install nmstate 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 nmstate using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install nmstate

How To Uninstall nmstate on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the nmstate package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove nmstate

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install nmstate on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.