How To Install dgit on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dgit on CentOS 8.
What is dgit
dgit (with the associated infrastructure) makes it possible to treat the Debian archive as a git repository “dgit push” constructs uploads from git commits “dgit clone” and “dgit fetch” construct git commits from uploads.
We can use yum or dnf to install dgit on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dgit.
Install dgit 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 dgit using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install dgit
Install dgit 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 dgit using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install dgit
How To Uninstall dgit on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the dgit package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove dgit
dgit Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/dgit
/usr/bin/dgit-badcommit-fixup
/usr/bin/git-playtree-setup
/usr/share/dgit
/usr/share/dgit/absurd
/usr/share/dgit/absurd/git
/usr/share/doc/dgit
/usr/share/doc/dgit/README.dsc-import
/usr/share/doc/dgit/README.md
/usr/share/doc/dgit/changelog
/usr/share/licenses/dgit
/usr/share/licenses/dgit/copyright
/usr/share/man/man1/dgit.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/dgit-downstream-dsc.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/dgit-maint-bpo.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/dgit-maint-debrebase.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/dgit-maint-gbp.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/dgit-maint-merge.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/dgit-maint-native.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/dgit-nmu-simple.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/dgit-sponsorship.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/dgit-user.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/dgit.7.gz
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Debian
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Debian/Dgit
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Debian/Dgit.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Debian/Dgit/ExitStatus.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Debian/Dgit/I18n.pm
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dgit on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.