OCI - How to Install oracle-cloud-agent Package on Oracle Linux Platform

Applies to:

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Linux x86_64

Goal:

This document describes how to install oracle-cloud-agent Package on a Oracle Linux Platform

Solution:

To manually install the Oracle Cloud Agent software on a Linux Instance for OSMS or non-OSMS enabled instance follow the steps below:

1) OSMS Enabled Instances :

• Add the software source “Oracle Software for OCI users on Oracle Linux”, following steps in document : 

https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/os-management/osms/osms-software-sources.htm#osms-console-add-software-sources

• Then install the oracle-cloud-agent package 

Oracle Linux 7

$ sudo yum install oracle-cloud-agent

Oracle Linux 8 and 9

$ sudo dnf install oracle-cloud-agent

2) Non-OSMS Enabled Instances:

• Create the oci-included repository file and add the repository information below: