How To Install fedora-packager on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fedora-packager on CentOS 8.
What is fedora-packager
Set of utilities useful for a fedora packager in setting up their environment.
We can use yum or dnf to install fedora-packager on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fedora-packager.
Install fedora-packager 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 fedora-packager using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install fedora-packager
Install fedora-packager 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 fedora-packager using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install fedora-packager
How To Uninstall fedora-packager on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the fedora-packager package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove fedora-packager
fedora-packager Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/koji.conf.d/fedora.conf
/etc/koji.conf.d/s390.conf
/etc/koji.conf.d/stg.conf
/etc/krb5.conf.d/fedoraproject_org
/etc/krb5.conf.d/stg_fedoraproject_org
/etc/pki/ipa/fedoraproject_ipa_ca.crt
/etc/pki/ipa/stg_fedoraproject_ipa_ca.crt
/usr/bin/fedora-getsvn
/usr/bin/fkinit
/usr/bin/pkgname
/usr/bin/rpmbuild-md5
/usr/bin/s390-koji
/usr/bin/stg-koji
/usr/share/doc/fedora-packager
/usr/share/doc/fedora-packager/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/fedora-packager/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/fedora-packager/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/fedora-packager
/usr/share/licenses/fedora-packager/COPYING
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fedora-packager on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.