Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install appliance-tools on CentOS 8.
What is appliance-tools
Tools for generating appliance images on Fedora based systems, including derived distributions such as RHEL, CentOS, and others.
We can use yum or dnf to install appliance-tools on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install appliance-tools.
Install appliance-tools on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install appliance-tools using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install appliance-tools
Install appliance-tools on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install appliance-tools using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install appliance-tools
How To Uninstall appliance-tools on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the appliance-tools package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove appliance-tools
appliance-tools Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/appliance-creator
/usr/bin/ec2-converter
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/appcreate
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/appcreate/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/appcreate/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/appcreate/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/appcreate/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/appcreate/__pycache__/appliance.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/appcreate/__pycache__/appliance.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/appcreate/__pycache__/partitionedfs.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/appcreate/__pycache__/partitionedfs.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/appcreate/appliance.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/appcreate/partitionedfs.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ec2convert
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ec2convert/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ec2convert/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ec2convert/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ec2convert/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ec2convert/__pycache__/ec2config.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ec2convert/__pycache__/ec2config.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ec2convert/__pycache__/fs.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ec2convert/__pycache__/fs.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ec2convert/__pycache__/rpmcheck.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ec2convert/__pycache__/rpmcheck.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ec2convert/ec2config.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ec2convert/fs.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ec2convert/rpmcheck.py
/usr/share/doc/appliance-tools
/usr/share/doc/appliance-tools/README
/usr/share/doc/appliance-tools/fedora-aos.ks
/usr/share/licenses/appliance-tools
/usr/share/licenses/appliance-tools/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/appliance-creator.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ec2-converter.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install appliance-tools on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
