How To Install debmirror on CentOS 8

debmirror is Debian partial mirror script, with ftp and package pool support

Introduction

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

What is debmirror

This program downloads and maintains a partial local Debian mirror. It can mirror any combination of architectures, distributions and sections. Files are transferred by ftp, http, hftp or rsync, and package pools are fully supported. It also does locking and updates trace files.

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

Install debmirror 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 debmirror using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install debmirror

Install debmirror 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 debmirror using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install debmirror

How To Uninstall debmirror on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove debmirror

debmirror Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/debmirror.conf
/usr/bin/debmirror
/usr/share/doc/debmirror
/usr/share/doc/debmirror/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/debmirror/changelog
/usr/share/doc/debmirror/design.txt
/usr/share/licenses/debmirror
/usr/share/licenses/debmirror/GPL
/usr/share/licenses/debmirror/copyright
/usr/share/man/man1/debmirror.1.gz

References

Summary

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