How To Install osinfo-db on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install osinfo-db
on CentOS 7.
What is osinfo-db
The osinfo database provides information about operating systems and hypervisor platforms to facilitate the automated configuration and provisioning of new virtual machines
We can use yum
or dnf
to install osinfo-db
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install osinfo-db.
Install osinfo-db on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install osinfo-db
using yum
by running the following command:
Install osinfo-db 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.
After updating yum database, We can install osinfo-db
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall osinfo-db on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the osinfo-db
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install osinfo-db
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.