How can I enable the PowerTools Repository on CentOS 8 / Rocky Linux 8 / RHEL 8 Linux machine?. The PowerTools repository is not enabled by default on CentOS 8 / Rocky Linux 8 / RHEL 8 Linux. This repository contains a number of packages required as dependencies when installing other applications, and mostly building applications from source code.

Some of the Packages in PowerTools are:

  • device-mapper-devel
  • kmod-devel
  • lame-devel
  • maven-common
  • mariadb-common
  • mingw64 and mesa packages
  • opencv
  • perl-*
  • parted-devel
  • xorg-x11-server-devel
  • and many others

To be able to enable PowerTools Repository on CentOS 8 / Rocky Linux 8 / RHEL 8 from command line interface. First install DNF plugins package:

sudo dnf -y install dnf-plugins-core
sudo dnf upgrade -y

Install EPEL repository – PowerTools repository & EPEL repository are best friends. So enable EPEL repository as well.

sudo dnf -y install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm

Enable PowerTools Repository on CentOS 8 / Rocky Linux 8 / RHEL 8:

sudo dnf config-manager --set-enabled powertools

Confirm it is enabled:

$ sudo dnf repolist
repo id                                                                            repo name
appstream                                                                          Rocky Linux 8 - AppStream
baseos                                                                             Rocky Linux 8 - BaseOS
epel                                                                               Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64
extras                                                                             Rocky Linux 8 - Extras
foreman-client                                                                     Foreman client 3.5
powertools                                                                         Rocky Linux 8 - PowerTools

You can now install packages from PowerTools repository on CentOS 8 / Rocky Linux 8 / RHEL 8 Linux system.

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