How To Install fpart on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fpart on CentOS 8.
What is fpart
Fpart is a tool that helps you sort file trees and pack them into bags (called “partitions”). It is developed in C and available under the BSD license. It splits a list of directories and file trees into a certain number of partitions, trying to produce partitions with the same size and number of files. It can also produce partitions with a given number of files or a limited size.
We can use yum or dnf to install fpart on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fpart.
Install fpart 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 fpart using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install fpart
Install fpart 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 fpart using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install fpart
How To Uninstall fpart on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the fpart package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove fpart
fpart Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/fpart
/usr/bin/fpsync
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/08
/usr/lib/.build-id/08/1b00a39d471c367be04f061d9ad80051e72551
/usr/share/doc/fpart
/usr/share/doc/fpart/Changelog
/usr/share/doc/fpart/README
/usr/share/doc/fpart/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/fpart
/usr/share/licenses/fpart/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/fpart.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/fpsync.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fpart on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.