How To Install create-fake-rpm on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install create-fake-rpm on CentOS 8.
What is create-fake-rpm
A tool to generate an (s)rpm with faked provides. It may be useful when you install some library/module/application manually - without having an RPM package. E.g., when you pip install somepackage And when some RPM package
Requires refuses to install such package, becausepython-somepackageis not present on your system. RPMDB does not know what you know. So you can run create-fake-rpm --build python-somepackage python3dist(somepackage) This create packagefake-python-somepackage-0-0.noarch.rpm` which provides “python-somepackage” and “python3dist(somepackage)”. You can install it using dnf install fake-python-somepackage-0-0.noarch.rpm
We can use yum or dnf to install create-fake-rpm on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install create-fake-rpm.
Install create-fake-rpm 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 create-fake-rpm using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install create-fake-rpm
Install create-fake-rpm 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 create-fake-rpm using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install create-fake-rpm
How To Uninstall create-fake-rpm on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the create-fake-rpm package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove create-fake-rpm
create-fake-rpm Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/create-fake-rpm
/usr/share/create-fake-rpm
/usr/share/create-fake-rpm/template.spec
/usr/share/doc/create-fake-rpm
/usr/share/doc/create-fake-rpm/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/create-fake-rpm
/usr/share/licenses/create-fake-rpm/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/create-fake-rpm.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install create-fake-rpm on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.