How To Install euca-describe-keypairs 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 euca2ools

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install euca2ools

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

What is euca-describe-keypairs 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 euca-describe-keypairs 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 euca-describe-keypairs 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 euca-describe-keypairs using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install euca2ools

Install euca-describe-keypairs on CentOS 8 using yum

Because euca-describe-keypairs 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 euca-describe-keypairs package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install euca2ools

How to upgrade (update) a single package euca-describe-keypairs using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

If you want to update a specific package like euca-describe-keypairs in this example you should use the following command:

yum update euca2ools

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade euca2ools

How to Upgrade euca-describe-keypairs 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 euca2ools

How To remove euca-describe-keypairs from CentOS 8

To uninstall only the euca-describe-keypairs package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove euca2ools

Extra info and code examples

Command-line tools for interacting with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and other AWS-compatible services, such as Eucalyptus and OpenStack, that export a REST/Query-based API compatible with Amazon EC2, IAM, and S3 services. The tools can be used with both Amazon's services and with installations of the Eucalyptus open-source cloud-computing infrastructure. The tools were inspired by command-line tools distributed by Amazon (api-tools and ami-tools) and largely accept the same options and environment variables. However, these tools were implemented from scratch in Python.

Conclusion

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

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