How To Install flopgen on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install flopgen
on CentOS 8.
What is flopgen
Flopgen is a tool for automatic creation of FAT-formatted floppy disk images with user-supplied files. This program should be especially useful for people who need to transfer files frequently between their main machines and emulated/virtualised legacy systems with no or unreliable CD support.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install flopgen
on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install flopgen.
Install flopgen 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 flopgen
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install flopgen
Install flopgen 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 flopgen
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install flopgen
How To Uninstall flopgen on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the flopgen
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove flopgen
flopgen Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/flopgen
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b1
/usr/lib/.build-id/b1/edb48ac861d7e13896d01dfc4e2418b3b6e688
/usr/share/doc/flopgen
/usr/share/doc/flopgen/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/flopgen
/usr/share/licenses/flopgen/LICENSE
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install flopgen
on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.