How To Install odcs on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install odcs on CentOS 7. odcs is The On Demand Compose Service

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install odcs on CentOS 7.

What is odcs

The On Demand Compose Service (ODCS) creates temporary composes using Pungi tool and manages their lifetime. The composes can be requested by external services or users using the REST API provided by Flask frontend.

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

Install odcs on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install odcs

Install odcs 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 odcs using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install odcs

How To Uninstall odcs on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove odcs

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Summary

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