Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install auter on CentOS 8.
What is auter
auter (optionally) pre-downloads updates and then runs automatically on a set schedule, optionally rebooting to finish applying the updates.
We can use yum or dnf to install auter on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install auter.
Install auter 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 auter using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install auter
Install auter 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 auter using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install auter
How To Uninstall auter on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the auter package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove auter
auter Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/auter
/etc/auter/auter.conf
/etc/auter/post-apply.d
/etc/auter/post-prep.d
/etc/auter/post-reboot.d
/etc/auter/pre-apply.d
/etc/auter/pre-prep.d
/etc/auter/pre-reboot.d
/etc/cron.d/auter
/run/auter
/run/auter/auter.pid
/usr/bin/auter
/usr/lib/auter
/usr/lib/auter/auter.module
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/auter.conf
/usr/share/doc/auter
/usr/share/doc/auter/MAINTAINERS.md
/usr/share/doc/auter/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/auter/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/auter
/usr/share/licenses/auter/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/auter.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/auter.conf.5.gz
/var/cache/auter
/var/lib/auter
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install auter on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
