How To Install yum-dellsysid on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install yum-dellsysid on CentOS 7. yum-dellsysid is YUM plugin to retrieve the Dell System ID

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install yum-dellsysid on CentOS 7.

What is yum-dellsysid

Libsmbios is a library and utilities that can be used by client programs to get information from standard BIOS tables, such as the SMBIOS table. This package contains a YUM plugin which allows the use of certain substitutions in yum repository configuration files on Dell systems.

We can use yum or dnf to install yum-dellsysid on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install yum-dellsysid.

Install yum-dellsysid 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-dellsysid using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install yum-dellsysid

Install yum-dellsysid 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-dellsysid using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install yum-dellsysid

How To Uninstall yum-dellsysid on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the yum-dellsysid package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove yum-dellsysid

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install yum-dellsysid on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.