How To Install debconf-doc on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install debconf-doc on CentOS 8.
What is debconf-doc
This package contains lots of additional documentation for Debconf, including the debconf user’s guide, documentation about using different backend databases via the /etc/debconf.conf file, and a developer’s guide to debconf.
We can use yum or dnf to install debconf-doc on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install debconf-doc.
Install debconf-doc 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 debconf-doc using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install debconf-doc
Install debconf-doc 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 debconf-doc using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install debconf-doc
How To Uninstall debconf-doc on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the debconf-doc package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove debconf-doc
debconf-doc Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/share/doc/debconf-doc
/usr/share/doc/debconf-doc/debconf.schema
/usr/share/doc/debconf-doc/hierarchy.txt
/usr/share/doc/debconf-doc/namespace.txt
/usr/share/doc/debconf-doc/passthrough.txt
/usr/share/doc/debconf-doc/samples
/usr/share/doc/debconf-doc/samples/demo
/usr/share/doc/debconf-doc/samples/demo.templates
/usr/share/doc/debconf-doc/samples/tutorial
/usr/share/doc/debconf-doc/samples/tutorial-back
/usr/share/doc/debconf-doc/samples/tutorial.templates
/usr/share/licenses/debconf-doc
/usr/share/licenses/debconf-doc/copyright
/usr/share/man/de/man3/Debconf::Client::ConfModule.3.gz
/usr/share/man/de/man3/confmodule.3.gz
/usr/share/man/de/man5/debconf.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/de/man7/debconf-devel.7.gz
/usr/share/man/de/man7/debconf.7.gz
/usr/share/man/fr/man3/Debconf::Client::ConfModule.3.gz
/usr/share/man/fr/man3/confmodule.3.gz
/usr/share/man/fr/man5/debconf.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/fr/man7/debconf-devel.7.gz
/usr/share/man/fr/man7/debconf.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/confmodule.3.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/debconf.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/debconf-devel.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/debconf.7.gz
/usr/share/man/pt_BR/man3/confmodule.3.gz
/usr/share/man/ru/man3/Debconf::Client::ConfModule.3.gz
/usr/share/man/ru/man3/confmodule.3.gz
/usr/share/man/ru/man5/debconf.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/ru/man7/debconf-devel.7.gz
/usr/share/man/ru/man7/debconf.7.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install debconf-doc on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.