How To Install yum-plugin-keys on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install yum-plugin-keys on CentOS 7. yum-plugin-keys is Yum plugin to deal with signing keys

Introduction

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

What is `yum-plugin-keys`

This plugin adds the commands keys, keys-info, keys-data and keys-remove. They allow you to query and remove signing keys.

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

Install yum-plugin-keys 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-keys using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install yum-plugin-keys

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

sudo dnf -y install yum-plugin-keys

How To Uninstall yum-plugin-keys on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove yum-plugin-keys

References

yum-plugin-keys website

Summary

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