How To Install abrt-cli-ng on CentOS 8

abrt-cli-ng is abrt’s improved command line interface

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install abrt-cli-ng on CentOS 8.

What is abrt-cli-ng

New generation command line interface for ABRT

We can use yum or dnf to install abrt-cli-ng on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install abrt-cli-ng.

Install abrt-cli-ng on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install abrt-cli-ng using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install abrt-cli-ng

Install abrt-cli-ng on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install abrt-cli-ng using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install abrt-cli-ng

How To Uninstall abrt-cli-ng on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the abrt-cli-ng package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove abrt-cli-ng

abrt-cli-ng Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/bash_completion.d/abrt.bash_completion
/usr/bin/abrt
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/abrtcli
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/abrtcli/__init__.py
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/abrtcli/__pycache__
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/abrtcli/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/abrtcli/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/abrtcli/__pycache__/cli.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/abrtcli/__pycache__/cli.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/abrtcli/__pycache__/config.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/abrtcli/__pycache__/config.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/abrtcli/__pycache__/filtering.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/abrtcli/__pycache__/filtering.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/abrtcli/__pycache__/l18n.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/abrtcli/__pycache__/l18n.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/abrtcli/__pycache__/match.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/abrtcli/__pycache__/match.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/abrtcli/__pycache__/utils.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/abrtcli/__pycache__/utils.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/abrtcli/cli.py
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/abrtcli/config.py
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/abrtcli/filtering.py
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/abrtcli/l18n.py
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/abrtcli/match.py
/usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/abrtcli/utils.py
/usr/share/man/man1/abrt.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install abrt-cli-ng on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.