How To Install flopgen on CentOS 8

flopgen is Tool for automatic creation of FAT-formatted floppy disk images

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

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Summary

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