How To Install yum-plugin-filter-data on CentOS 7

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install yum-plugin-filter-data on CentOS 7.

What is yum-plugin-filter-data

This plugin adds the options –filter- vendors, groups, packagers, licenses, arches, committers, buildhosts, baseurls, package-sizes, archive-sizes and installed-sizes. Note that each package must match at least one pattern/range in each category, if any were specified.

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

Install yum-plugin-filter-data 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-plugin-filter-data using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install yum-plugin-filter-data

Install yum-plugin-filter-data 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-plugin-filter-data using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install yum-plugin-filter-data

How To Uninstall yum-plugin-filter-data on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the yum-plugin-filter-data package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove yum-plugin-filter-data

References

• yum-plugin-filter-data website

Summary

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