How To Install yum-plugin-tmprepo on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install yum-plugin-tmprepo on CentOS 7.
What is yum-plugin-tmprepo
This plugin adds the option –tmprepo which takes a url to a .repo file downloads it and enables it for a single run. This plugin tries to ensure that temporary repositories are safe to use, by default, by not allowing gpg checking to be disabled.
We can use yum or dnf to install yum-plugin-tmprepo on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install yum-plugin-tmprepo.
Install yum-plugin-tmprepo 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-tmprepo using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install yum-plugin-tmprepo
Install yum-plugin-tmprepo 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-tmprepo using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install yum-plugin-tmprepo
How To Uninstall yum-plugin-tmprepo on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the yum-plugin-tmprepo package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove yum-plugin-tmprepo
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install yum-plugin-tmprepo on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
