How To Install debconf-doc on CentOS 8

debconf-doc is Debconf documentation

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

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Summary

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