Install and Manage Add-on Applications

The Cockpit add-on applications are installable by either issuing a command in the CLI or by clicking a button on the Applications page of the Cockpit web console.

Note:

The Applications page is available when the cockpit-packagekit add-on application is installed on the system. In some instances, cockpit-packagekit might already be installed and available for use in the web console.

What Do You Need?

• The Cockpit web console must be installed and accessible.

  For details, see these topics: and Install and Enable Cockpit and Log in to the Cockpit Web Console

• Administrator privileges.
• Names of the add-on application packages to install. For a list of package names, see Extend Cockpit's Functionality.

Steps

Follow these steps to install and manage Cockpit add-on applications in the web console.

1. Install add-on applications using one of the following methods:

   Option	Steps
   Using the command line	In the Cockpit navigation pane, click Terminal and then use the following command syntax to install add-on application packages: sudo dnf install [packagename] For example, to install the cockpit-packagekit package, type: sudo dnf install cockpit-packagekit
   Using the Applications page	In the Cockpit navigation pane, click Applications, and then for each add- on package you want to install, click Install.

2. In the Cockpit navigation pane, click Applications to manage all existing add-on applications.
   For example, on the Applications page, you can choose to perform any of the following tasks:

   • View the add-on application names already installed.
   • Click Remove to remove a selected application from Cockpit.
   • Click Install to re-install a selected application that was previously removed from Cockpit.