How To Install centpkg on CentOS 8

centpkg is CentOS utility for working with dist-git

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install centpkg on CentOS 8.

What is `centpkg`

Provides the centpkg command for working with dist-git.

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

Install centpkg 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 centpkg using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install centpkg

Install centpkg 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 centpkg using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install centpkg

How To Uninstall centpkg on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the centpkg package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove centpkg

centpkg Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/koji.conf.d/stream.conf
/etc/rpkg/centpkg.conf
/usr/bin/centpkg
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/centpkg
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/centpkg-0.6.6-py3.6.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/centpkg-0.6.6-py3.6.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/centpkg-0.6.6-py3.6.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/centpkg-0.6.6-py3.6.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/centpkg-0.6.6-py3.6.egg-info/requires.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/centpkg-0.6.6-py3.6.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/centpkg/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/centpkg/__main__.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/centpkg/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/centpkg/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/centpkg/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/centpkg/__pycache__/__main__.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/centpkg/__pycache__/__main__.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/centpkg/__pycache__/centos_cert.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/centpkg/__pycache__/centos_cert.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/centpkg/__pycache__/cli.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/centpkg/__pycache__/cli.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/centpkg/__pycache__/lookaside.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/centpkg/__pycache__/lookaside.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/centpkg/__pycache__/utils.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/centpkg/__pycache__/utils.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/centpkg/centos_cert.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/centpkg/cli.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/centpkg/lookaside.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/centpkg/utils.py
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/centpkg
/usr/share/doc/centpkg
/usr/share/doc/centpkg/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/centpkg
/usr/share/licenses/centpkg/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/centpkg.1.gz

References

centpkg website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install centpkg on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.