How To Install freight on CentOS 8

freight is A modern take on the Debian archive

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install freight on CentOS 8.

What is freight

freight programs create the files needed to serve a Debian archive. The actual serving is done via your favorite HTTP server.

We can use yum or dnf to install freight on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install freight.

Install freight 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 freight using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install freight

Install freight 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 freight using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install freight

How To Uninstall freight on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the freight package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove freight

freight Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/freight.conf
/usr/bin/freight
/usr/bin/freight-add
/usr/bin/freight-cache
/usr/bin/freight-clear-cache
/usr/bin/freight-init
/usr/share/doc/freight
/usr/share/doc/freight/NOTES
/usr/share/doc/freight/README.md
/usr/share/freight
/usr/share/freight/apt.sh
/usr/share/freight/conf.sh
/usr/share/licenses/freight
/usr/share/licenses/freight/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/freight-add.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/freight-cache.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/freight-clear-cache.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/freight-init.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/freight.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/freight.5.gz
/var/cache/freight
/var/lib/freight

References

Summary

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