How To Install testcloud on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install testcloud on Rocky Linux 8.
What is testcloud
testcloud is a relatively simple system which is capable of booting images designed for cloud systems on a local system with minimal configuration. testcloud is designed to be (and remain) somewhat simple, trading fancy cloud system features for ease of use and sanity in development.
We can use yum or dnf to install testcloud on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install testcloud.
Install testcloud on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install testcloud using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install testcloud
Install testcloud on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install testcloud using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install testcloud
How To Uninstall testcloud on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the testcloud package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove testcloud
testcloud Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/etc/polkit-1/rules.d/99-testcloud-nonroot-libvirt-access.rules
/etc/testcloud
/etc/testcloud/settings.py
/usr/bin/t7d
/usr/bin/testcloud
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/testcloud
/usr/share/doc/testcloud
/usr/share/doc/testcloud/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/testcloud
/usr/share/licenses/testcloud/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/testcloud.1.gz
/var/lib/testcloud
/var/lib/testcloud/backingstores
/var/lib/testcloud/domain-coreos-template.jinja
/var/lib/testcloud/domain-template.jinja
/var/lib/testcloud/instances
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install testcloud on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.