How To Install bootstrap-vz-server on CentOS 8

One-liner Install Command

If you are only interested in the installation command, here is a quick answer for you:

sudo yum makecache && sudo yum -y install bootstrap-vz

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install bootstrap-vz

But if you are interested in the details with step-by-step instructions, the following information will be helpful.

What is bootstrap-vz-server and How to Install It?

First things first, you will need access to a server or computer running CentOS 8. This guide was written specifically with a server running CentOS 8 in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install bootstrap-vz-server on CentOS 8. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install bootstrap-vz-server on CentOS 8 using dnf

First, update dnf packages database with dnf by running the next command:

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating database, You can install bootstrap-vz-server using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install bootstrap-vz

Install bootstrap-vz-server on CentOS 8 using yum

Because bootstrap-vz-server is available in CentOS 8’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the yum packaging system.

To begin, update local packages database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

Now can install bootstrap-vz-server package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install bootstrap-vz

How to upgrade (update) a single package bootstrap-vz-server using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

If you want to update a specific package like bootstrap-vz-server in this example you should use the following command:

yum update bootstrap-vz

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade bootstrap-vz

How to Upgrade bootstrap-vz-server on CentOS 8 with dnf?

When you run the dnf update, all system packages with available updates are updated. However, if you want to upgrade a single package, then you would have to pass the package name as the argument to the dnf update command.

dnf update bootstrap-vz

How To remove bootstrap-vz-server from CentOS 8

To uninstall only the bootstrap-vz-server package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove bootstrap-vz

Extra info and code examples

It's a software for creating Debian images to run on public or private clouds (Amazon, Google, OpenStack, Eucaliptus, etc). It's using bootstraping as a method for creating images. Images created by this tool are fully operational Debian Images for Cloud. Provisioning may be also be done with Salt, Puppet, Chef and Ansible.

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install bootstrap-vz-server using dnf and yum package managers. Also, we showed how to update manually as a single package and different ways to uninstall the bootstrap-vz-server from CentOS 8.

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