How To Install yum-plugin-local on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install yum-plugin-local
on CentOS 7.
What is yum-plugin-local
When this plugin is installed it will automatically copy all downloaded packages to a repository on the local filesystem, and (re)build that repository. This means that anything you’ve downloaded will always exist, even if the original repo. removes it (and can thus. be reinstalled/downgraded/etc.).
We can use yum
or dnf
to install yum-plugin-local
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install yum-plugin-local.
Install yum-plugin-local 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-local
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install yum-plugin-local
Install yum-plugin-local 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-local
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install yum-plugin-local
How To Uninstall yum-plugin-local on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the yum-plugin-local
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove yum-plugin-local
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install yum-plugin-local
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.