How To Install cpaste on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cpaste on CentOS 8.
What is cpaste
Command line tool to upload things to the CentOS Project’s pastebin service located at https piped in via standard input. Permits the user to specify title; authors name; expiry time; language/format and mark the paste as private. May also be used for any other stikked-based pastebin service.
We can use yum or dnf to install cpaste on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cpaste.
Install cpaste 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 cpaste using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install cpaste
Install cpaste 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 cpaste using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install cpaste
How To Uninstall cpaste on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the cpaste package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove cpaste
cpaste Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/cpaste
/etc/cpaste/apikey
/etc/cpaste/expiry
/etc/cpaste/url
/usr/bin/cpaste
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2b
/usr/lib/.build-id/2b/d45e3b3704378e4ce81337f062085165745aa6
/usr/share/doc/cpaste
/usr/share/doc/cpaste/License.txt
/usr/share/doc/cpaste/README.CentOS
/usr/share/doc/cpaste/README.md
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cpaste on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.