How To Install usermode on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install usermode on Rocky Linux 8. usermode is Tools for certain user account management tasks

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install usermode on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `usermode`

The usermode package contains the userhelper program, which can be used to allow configured programs to be run with superuser privileges by ordinary users.

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

Install usermode 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 usermode using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install usermode

Install usermode 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 usermode using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install usermode

How To Uninstall usermode on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove usermode

usermode Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/security/console.apps/config-util
/usr/bin/consolehelper
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/4a
/usr/lib/.build-id/4a/c4ea436c5f52c0f7e20d61bf7c2d6920ffcd4c
/usr/lib/.build-id/c5
/usr/lib/.build-id/c5/004e6d1b030337630e0cd0ab33ee45e6d2386b
/usr/sbin/userhelper
/usr/share/doc/usermode
/usr/share/doc/usermode/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/usermode/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/usermode/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/usermode/README
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_IN/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/cy/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/de_CH/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/ka/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/kn/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/mai/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/mk/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/nds/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/or/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/si/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/tg/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/usermode.mo
/usr/share/man/man8/consolehelper.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/userhelper.8.gz

References

usermode website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install usermode on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.