How To Install dselect on CentOS 8

dselect is Debian package management front-end

Introduction

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

What is dselect

dselect is a high-level interface for managing the installation and removal of Debian software packages. Many users find dselect intimidating and new users may prefer to use apt-based user interfaces.

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

Install dselect 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 dselect using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install dselect

Install dselect 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 dselect using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install dselect

How To Uninstall dselect on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove dselect

dselect Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/dpkg/dselect.cfg
/etc/dpkg/dselect.cfg.d
/usr/bin/dselect
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/31
/usr/lib/.build-id/31/2c51e1750588ce89cc9e2af45aebc2ff84cad2
/usr/libexec/dpkg/methods
/usr/libexec/dpkg/methods/disk
/usr/libexec/dpkg/methods/disk/desc.cdrom
/usr/libexec/dpkg/methods/disk/desc.harddisk
/usr/libexec/dpkg/methods/disk/desc.mounted
/usr/libexec/dpkg/methods/disk/desc.nfs
/usr/libexec/dpkg/methods/disk/install
/usr/libexec/dpkg/methods/disk/names
/usr/libexec/dpkg/methods/disk/setup
/usr/libexec/dpkg/methods/disk/update
/usr/libexec/dpkg/methods/floppy
/usr/libexec/dpkg/methods/floppy/desc.floppy
/usr/libexec/dpkg/methods/floppy/install
/usr/libexec/dpkg/methods/floppy/names
/usr/libexec/dpkg/methods/floppy/setup
/usr/libexec/dpkg/methods/floppy/update
/usr/libexec/dpkg/methods/ftp
/usr/libexec/dpkg/methods/ftp/desc.ftp
/usr/libexec/dpkg/methods/ftp/install
/usr/libexec/dpkg/methods/ftp/names
/usr/libexec/dpkg/methods/ftp/setup
/usr/libexec/dpkg/methods/ftp/update
/usr/libexec/dpkg/methods/multicd
/usr/libexec/dpkg/methods/multicd/desc.multi_cd
/usr/libexec/dpkg/methods/multicd/desc.multi_mount
/usr/libexec/dpkg/methods/multicd/desc.multi_nfs
/usr/libexec/dpkg/methods/multicd/install
/usr/libexec/dpkg/methods/multicd/names
/usr/libexec/dpkg/methods/multicd/setup
/usr/libexec/dpkg/methods/multicd/update
/usr/share/doc/dselect
/usr/share/doc/dselect/README.multicd
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/tl/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/man/de/man1/dselect.1.gz
/usr/share/man/de/man5/dselect.cfg.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/dselect.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/dselect.cfg.5.gz
/usr/share/man/nl/man1/dselect.1.gz
/usr/share/man/nl/man5/dselect.cfg.5.gz
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Dselect
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Dselect/Ftp.pm
/var/lib/dpkg/methods
/var/lib/dpkg/methods/disk
/var/lib/dpkg/methods/floppy
/var/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp
/var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt
/var/lib/dpkg/methods/multicd

References

Summary

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