How To Install yum-plugin-ps on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install yum-plugin-ps
on CentOS 7.
What is yum-plugin-ps
When this plugin is installed it adds the yum command “ps”, which allows you to see which running processes are accociated with which packages (and if they need rebooting, or have updates, etc.)
We can use yum
or dnf
to install yum-plugin-ps
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install yum-plugin-ps.
Install yum-plugin-ps on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install yum-plugin-ps
using yum
by running the following command:
Install yum-plugin-ps 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.
After updating yum database, We can install yum-plugin-ps
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall yum-plugin-ps on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the yum-plugin-ps
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install yum-plugin-ps
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.