How To Install yum-plugin-versionlock on CentOS 7

Introduction

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

What is yum-plugin-versionlock

This plugin takes a set of name/versions for packages and excludes all other versions of those packages (including optionally following obsoletes). This allows you to protect packages from being updated by newer versions, for example.

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

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

sudo yum -y install yum-plugin-versionlock

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

sudo dnf -y install yum-plugin-versionlock

How To Uninstall yum-plugin-versionlock on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove yum-plugin-versionlock

References

• yum-plugin-versionlock website

Summary

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