How To Install yum-plugin-protectbase on CentOS 7

Introduction

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

What is yum-plugin-protectbase

This plugin allows certain repositories to be protected. Packages in the protected repositories can’t be overridden by packages in non-protected repositories even if the non-protected repo has a later version.

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

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

sudo yum -y install yum-plugin-protectbase

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

sudo dnf -y install yum-plugin-protectbase

How To Uninstall yum-plugin-protectbase on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove yum-plugin-protectbase

References

• yum-plugin-protectbase website

Summary

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