How To Install python3-designate-zone-manager 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 python3-designate

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install python3-designate

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

What is python3-designate-zone-manager 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 python3-designate-zone-manager 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 python3-designate-zone-manager 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 python3-designate-zone-manager using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install python3-designate

Install python3-designate-zone-manager on CentOS 8 using yum

Because python3-designate-zone-manager 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 python3-designate-zone-manager package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install python3-designate

How to upgrade (update) a single package python3-designate-zone-manager using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

If you want to update a specific package like python3-designate-zone-manager in this example you should use the following command:

yum update python3-designate

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade python3-designate

How to Upgrade python3-designate-zone-manager 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 python3-designate

How To remove python3-designate-zone-manager from CentOS 8

To uninstall only the python3-designate-zone-manager package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove python3-designate

Extra info and code examples

Designate provides DNSaaS services for OpenStack. It provides a multi-tenant REST API for domain & record management. It is Integrated with Keystone for authentication, and provides a framework in place to integrate with Nova and Neutron notifications (for auto-generated records). Designate supports PowerDNS and Bind9 out of the box. This package provides the Python libraries.

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install python3-designate-zone-manager using dnf and yum package managers. Also, we showed how to update manually as a single package and different ways to uninstall the python3-designate-zone-manager from CentOS 8.

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