How To Install centos-release-ceph-octopus on CentOS 8

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centos-release-ceph-octopus is Ceph Octopus packages from the CentOS Storage SIG repository

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install centos-release-ceph-octopus on CentOS 8.

What is centos-release-ceph-octopus

yum configuration for Ceph Octopus packages from the CentOS Storage SIG.

We can use yum or dnf to install centos-release-ceph-octopus on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install centos-release-ceph-octopus.

Install centos-release-ceph-octopus 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 centos-release-ceph-octopus using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install centos-release-ceph-octopus

Install centos-release-ceph-octopus 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 centos-release-ceph-octopus using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install centos-release-ceph-octopus

How To Uninstall centos-release-ceph-octopus on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the centos-release-ceph-octopus package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove centos-release-ceph-octopus

centos-release-ceph-octopus Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Ceph-Octopus.repo

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install centos-release-ceph-octopus on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.

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