How To Install pbuilder on CentOS 8
pbuilder is Personal package builder for Debian packages
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pbuilder on CentOS 8.
What is pbuilder
pbuilder constructs a chroot system, and builds a package inside the chroot. It is an ideal system to use to check that a package has correct build- dependencies.
We can use yum or dnf to install pbuilder on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install pbuilder.
Install pbuilder 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 pbuilder using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install pbuilder
Install pbuilder 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 pbuilder using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install pbuilder
How To Uninstall pbuilder on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the pbuilder package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove pbuilder
pbuilder Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/pbuilder
/etc/pbuilder/buildd-config.sh
/etc/pbuilderrc
/usr/bin/debuild-pbuilder
/usr/bin/pdebuild
/usr/lib/pbuilder
/usr/lib/pbuilder/pbuilder-apt-config
/usr/lib/pbuilder/pbuilder-buildpackage
/usr/lib/pbuilder/pbuilder-buildpackage-funcs
/usr/lib/pbuilder/pbuilder-checkparams
/usr/lib/pbuilder/pbuilder-createbuildenv
/usr/lib/pbuilder/pbuilder-loadconfig
/usr/lib/pbuilder/pbuilder-modules
/usr/lib/pbuilder/pbuilder-runhooks
/usr/lib/pbuilder/pbuilder-satisfydepends
/usr/lib/pbuilder/pbuilder-satisfydepends-apt
/usr/lib/pbuilder/pbuilder-satisfydepends-aptitude
/usr/lib/pbuilder/pbuilder-satisfydepends-checkparams
/usr/lib/pbuilder/pbuilder-satisfydepends-classic
/usr/lib/pbuilder/pbuilder-satisfydepends-experimental
/usr/lib/pbuilder/pbuilder-satisfydepends-funcs
/usr/lib/pbuilder/pbuilder-satisfydepends-gdebi
/usr/lib/pbuilder/pbuilder-unshare-wrapper
/usr/lib/pbuilder/pbuilder-updatebuildenv
/usr/lib/pbuilder/pdebuild-checkparams
/usr/lib/pbuilder/pdebuild-internal
/usr/sbin/pbuilder
/usr/share/bash-completion
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/pbuilder
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/README
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/README.fedora
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/TODO
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/B20autopkgtest
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/B90lintian
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/B90list-missing
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/B91debc
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/B91dpkg-i
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/B92test-pkg
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/C10shell
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/C11screen
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/D10tmp
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/D20addnonfree
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/D65various-compiler-support
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/D80no-man-db-rebuild
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/D90chrootmemo
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/F90chrootmemo
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/execute_installtest.sh
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/execute_paramtest.sh
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/lvmpbuilder
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/lvmpbuilder/README
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/lvmpbuilder/STRATEGY
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/lvmpbuilder/lib
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/lvmpbuilder/lib/lvmbuilder-checkparams
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/lvmpbuilder/lib/lvmbuilder-modules
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/lvmpbuilder/lib/lvmbuilder-unimplemented
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/lvmpbuilder/lvmbuilder
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/pbuildd
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/pbuildd/buildd.sh
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/pbuildd/hookdir
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/pbuildd/hookdir/A10dpkg-l.sh
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/pbuilder-distribution.sh
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/pbuilder-test
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/pbuilder-test/000_prepinstall
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/pbuilder-test/001_apprun
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/pbuilder-test/002_libfile
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/pbuilder-test/002_sample.c
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/pbuilder-test/003_makecheck
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/pbuilder-test/004_ldd
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/pbuilder-test/README
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/pbuilderrc
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/rebuild
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/rebuild/README
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/rebuild/buildall
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/rebuild/getlist
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/pbuilder-doc.pdf
/usr/share/man/man1/debuild-pbuilder.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pdebuild.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/pbuilderrc.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/pbuilder.8.gz
/usr/share/pbuilder
/usr/share/pbuilder/pbuilderrc
/var/cache/pbuilder/ccache
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pbuilder on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.