How To Install yum-plugin-protectbase.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install yum-plugin-protectbase.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. yum-plugin-protectbase.noarch is Yum plugin to protect packages from certain repositories.

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install yum-plugin-protectbase.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.

What is yum-plugin-protectbase.noarch

This plugin allows certain repositories to be protected. Packages in the protected repositories can’t be overridden by packages in non-protected repositories even if the non-protected repo has a later version.

We can use yum to install yum-plugin-protectbase.noarch on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install yum-plugin-protectbase.noarch.

Install yum-plugin-protectbase.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install yum-plugin-protectbase.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install yum-plugin-protectbase.noarch

How To Uninstall yum-plugin-protectbase.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the yum-plugin-protectbase.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove yum-plugin-protectbase.noarch

yum-plugin-protectbase.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/yum/pluginconf.d/protectbase.conf
/usr/lib/yum-plugins/protectbase.py
/usr/lib/yum-plugins/protectbase.pyc
/usr/lib/yum-plugins/protectbase.pyo
/usr/share/doc/yum-plugin-protectbase-1.1.31
/usr/share/doc/yum-plugin-protectbase-1.1.31/COPYING

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install yum-plugin-protectbase.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.