How To Install dpkg on CentOS 8
dpkg is Package maintenance system for Debian Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dpkg on CentOS 8.
What is dpkg
This package provides the low-level infrastructure for handling the installation and removal of Debian software packages. This package contains the tools (including dpkg-source) required to unpack, build and upload Debian source packages. This package also contains the programs dpkg which used to handle the installation and removal of packages on a Debian system. This package also contains dselect, an interface for managing the installation and removal of packages on the system. dpkg and dselect will certainly be non-functional on a rpm-based system because packages dependencies will likely be unmet.
We can use yum or dnf to install dpkg on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dpkg.
Install dpkg 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 dpkg using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install dpkg
Install dpkg 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 dpkg using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install dpkg
How To Uninstall dpkg on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the dpkg package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove dpkg
dpkg Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/dpkg
/etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg
/etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d
/etc/dpkg/origins
/etc/dpkg/origins/fedora
/etc/logrotate.d/dpkg
/usr/bin/dpkg
/usr/bin/dpkg-deb
/usr/bin/dpkg-divert
/usr/bin/dpkg-maintscript-helper
/usr/bin/dpkg-query
/usr/bin/dpkg-split
/usr/bin/dpkg-statoverride
/usr/bin/dpkg-trigger
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0a
/usr/lib/.build-id/0a/00719cc2c2fdcd1a0ada3ecbe29afbe7dfb672
/usr/lib/.build-id/49
/usr/lib/.build-id/49/4e588057da8f9aab10de6cf2e1487bed01d65c
/usr/lib/.build-id/62
/usr/lib/.build-id/62/d082b65eea34636d0cc4c8123ab9759eaa365e
/usr/lib/.build-id/63
/usr/lib/.build-id/63/c3d8890ef1babe6d445e40d272f4f2c90fa59e
/usr/lib/.build-id/87
/usr/lib/.build-id/87/47067c7460205c59c0e79315dc8d01b03cec7c
/usr/lib/.build-id/9b
/usr/lib/.build-id/9b/32cab15dcfd2f96c58994ae9a1e198e74b788c
/usr/lib/.build-id/b3
/usr/lib/.build-id/b3/b6a7711c8cfc6529ad61a216d95e0b2ce6bab6
/usr/lib/.build-id/ee
/usr/lib/.build-id/ee/5da5e39387737e29d3b966710b47251f2f71d8
/usr/sbin/start-stop-daemon
/usr/share/doc/dpkg
/usr/share/doc/dpkg/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/dpkg/README
/usr/share/doc/dpkg/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/dpkg/TODO
/usr/share/doc/dpkg/changelog
/usr/share/doc/dpkg/dpkg.cron.daily
/usr/share/doc/dpkg/usertags
/usr/share/dpkg
/usr/share/dpkg/abitable
/usr/share/dpkg/cputable
/usr/share/dpkg/ostable
/usr/share/dpkg/tupletable
/usr/share/licenses/dpkg
/usr/share/licenses/dpkg/copyright
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/dpkg.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/dpkg.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/dpkg.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/dpkg.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/dpkg.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/dpkg.mo
/usr/share/locale/dz/LC_MESSAGES/dpkg.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/dpkg.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/dpkg.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/dpkg.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/dpkg.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/dpkg.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/dpkg.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/dpkg.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/dpkg.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/dpkg.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/dpkg.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/dpkg.mo
/usr/share/locale/km/LC_MESSAGES/dpkg.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/dpkg.mo
/usr/share/locale/ku/LC_MESSAGES/dpkg.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/dpkg.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/dpkg.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/dpkg.mo
/usr/share/locale/ne/LC_MESSAGES/dpkg.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/dpkg.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/dpkg.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/dpkg.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/dpkg.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/dpkg.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/dpkg.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/dpkg.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/dpkg.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/dpkg.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/dpkg.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/dpkg.mo
/usr/share/locale/tl/LC_MESSAGES/dpkg.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/dpkg.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/dpkg.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/dpkg.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/dpkg.mo
/usr/share/man/de/man1/dpkg-deb.1.gz
/usr/share/man/de/man1/dpkg-divert.1.gz
/usr/share/man/de/man1/dpkg-maintscript-helper.1.gz
/usr/share/man/de/man1/dpkg-query.1.gz
/usr/share/man/de/man1/dpkg-split.1.gz
/usr/share/man/de/man1/dpkg-statoverride.1.gz
/usr/share/man/de/man1/dpkg-trigger.1.gz
/usr/share/man/de/man1/dpkg.1.gz
/usr/share/man/de/man5/dpkg.cfg.5.gz
/usr/share/man/de/man8/start-stop-daemon.8.gz
/usr/share/man/es/man1/dpkg-divert.1.gz
/usr/share/man/es/man1/dpkg-split.1.gz
/usr/share/man/es/man8/start-stop-daemon.8.gz
/usr/share/man/fr/man1/dpkg-divert.1.gz
/usr/share/man/fr/man1/dpkg-maintscript-helper.1.gz
/usr/share/man/fr/man1/dpkg-query.1.gz
/usr/share/man/fr/man1/dpkg-split.1.gz
/usr/share/man/fr/man1/dpkg-statoverride.1.gz
/usr/share/man/fr/man1/dpkg-trigger.1.gz
/usr/share/man/fr/man8/start-stop-daemon.8.gz
/usr/share/man/it/man8/start-stop-daemon.8.gz
/usr/share/man/ja/man1/dpkg-divert.1.gz
/usr/share/man/ja/man1/dpkg-split.1.gz
/usr/share/man/ja/man8/start-stop-daemon.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/dpkg-deb.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/dpkg-divert.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/dpkg-maintscript-helper.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/dpkg-query.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/dpkg-split.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/dpkg-statoverride.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/dpkg-trigger.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/dpkg.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/dpkg.cfg.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/start-stop-daemon.8.gz
/usr/share/man/nl/man1/dpkg-deb.1.gz
/usr/share/man/nl/man1/dpkg-divert.1.gz
/usr/share/man/nl/man1/dpkg-maintscript-helper.1.gz
/usr/share/man/nl/man1/dpkg-query.1.gz
/usr/share/man/nl/man1/dpkg-split.1.gz
/usr/share/man/nl/man1/dpkg-statoverride.1.gz
/usr/share/man/nl/man1/dpkg-trigger.1.gz
/usr/share/man/nl/man1/dpkg.1.gz
/usr/share/man/nl/man5/dpkg.cfg.5.gz
/usr/share/man/nl/man8/start-stop-daemon.8.gz
/usr/share/man/pl/man8/start-stop-daemon.8.gz
/usr/share/man/sv/man1/dpkg-divert.1.gz
/usr/share/man/sv/man1/dpkg-maintscript-helper.1.gz
/usr/share/man/sv/man1/dpkg-query.1.gz
/usr/share/man/sv/man1/dpkg-split.1.gz
/usr/share/man/sv/man1/dpkg-statoverride.1.gz
/usr/share/man/sv/man1/dpkg-trigger.1.gz
/usr/share/man/sv/man8/start-stop-daemon.8.gz
/var/lib/dpkg
/var/lib/dpkg/alternatives
/var/lib/dpkg/info
/var/lib/dpkg/parts
/var/lib/dpkg/updates
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dpkg on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.