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-coreInstall 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.rpmEnable PowerTools Repository on CentOS 8 / Rocky Linux 8 / RHEL 8:
sudo dnf config-manager --set-enabled PowerTools
# OR
sudo dnf config-manager --set-enabled powertoolsConfirm it is enabled:
$ sudo dnf repolist
Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:44 ago on Fri 24 Apr 2020 09:00:56 PM CEST.
repo id repo name status
AppStream CentOS-8 - AppStream 4,830
BaseOS CentOS-8 - Base 1,661
PowerTools CentOS-8 - PowerTools 1,456
ceph-nautilus Ceph=Nautilus 119
*epel Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 5,335
extras CentOS-8 - Extras 15You can now install packages from PowerTools repository on CentOS 8 / Rocky Linux 8 / RHEL 8 Linux system.
Similar guides:
Enable EPEL repository on RHEL / CentOS 8
Enable REMI repository on CentOS / RHEL 8
