How To Install rhsm-icons on CentOS 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install rhsm-icons on CentOS 8. rhsm-icons is Icons for Red Hat Subscription Management client tools

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install rhsm-icons on CentOS 8.

What is rhsm-icons

This package contains the desktop icons for the graphical interfaces provided for management of Red Hat subscriptions. There are many such interfaces, subscription-manager-gui, subscription-manager-initial-setup-addon, and subscription-manager-cockpit-plugin primarily.

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

Install rhsm-icons on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install rhsm-icons

Install rhsm-icons 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 rhsm-icons using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install rhsm-icons

How To Uninstall rhsm-icons on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the rhsm-icons package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove rhsm-icons

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Summary

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