How To Install yum-cron on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install yum-cron on CentOS 7.
What is yum-cron
These are the files needed to run yum updates as a cron job. Install this package if you want auto yum updates nightly via cron.
We can use yum or dnf to install yum-cron on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install yum-cron.
Install yum-cron on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install yum-cron using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install yum-cron
Install yum-cron 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 yum-cron using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install yum-cron
How To Uninstall yum-cron on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the yum-cron package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove yum-cron
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install yum-cron on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
