How To Install erlang-reltool on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install erlang-reltool on CentOS 8.
What is erlang-reltool
Reltool is a release management tool. It analyses a given Erlang/OTP installation and determines various dependencies between applications. The graphical frontend depicts the dependencies and enables interactive customization of a target system. The backend provides a batch interface for generation of customized target systems.
We can use yum or dnf to install erlang-reltool on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install erlang-reltool.
Install erlang-reltool 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 erlang-reltool using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install erlang-reltool
Install erlang-reltool 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 erlang-reltool using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install erlang-reltool
How To Uninstall erlang-reltool on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the erlang-reltool package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove erlang-reltool
erlang-reltool Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/reltool-0.8
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/reltool-0.8/ebin
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/reltool-0.8/ebin/reltool.app
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/reltool-0.8/ebin/reltool.appup
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/reltool-0.8/ebin/reltool.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/reltool-0.8/ebin/reltool_app_win.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/reltool-0.8/ebin/reltool_fgraph.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/reltool-0.8/ebin/reltool_fgraph_win.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/reltool-0.8/ebin/reltool_mod_win.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/reltool-0.8/ebin/reltool_server.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/reltool-0.8/ebin/reltool_sys_win.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/reltool-0.8/ebin/reltool_target.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/reltool-0.8/ebin/reltool_utils.beam
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/reltool-0.8/src
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/reltool-0.8/src/reltool.hrl
/usr/lib64/erlang/lib/reltool-0.8/src/reltool_fgraph.hrl
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install erlang-reltool on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.