How To Install rarian-compat on CentOS 8

rarian-compat is Extra files for compatibility with scrollkeeper

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install rarian-compat on CentOS 8.

What is rarian-compat

This package contains files needed to maintain backward-compatibility with scrollkeeper.

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

Install rarian-compat 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 rarian-compat using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install rarian-compat

Install rarian-compat 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 rarian-compat using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install rarian-compat

How To Uninstall rarian-compat on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the rarian-compat package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove rarian-compat

rarian-compat Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/rarian-sk-config
/usr/bin/rarian-sk-extract
/usr/bin/rarian-sk-gen-uuid
/usr/bin/rarian-sk-get-cl
/usr/bin/rarian-sk-get-content-list
/usr/bin/rarian-sk-get-extended-content-list
/usr/bin/rarian-sk-get-scripts
/usr/bin/rarian-sk-install
/usr/bin/rarian-sk-migrate
/usr/bin/rarian-sk-preinstall
/usr/bin/rarian-sk-rebuild
/usr/bin/rarian-sk-update
/usr/bin/scrollkeeper-config
/usr/bin/scrollkeeper-extract
/usr/bin/scrollkeeper-gen-seriesid
/usr/bin/scrollkeeper-get-cl
/usr/bin/scrollkeeper-get-content-list
/usr/bin/scrollkeeper-get-extended-content-list
/usr/bin/scrollkeeper-get-index-from-docpath
/usr/bin/scrollkeeper-get-toc-from-docpath
/usr/bin/scrollkeeper-get-toc-from-id
/usr/bin/scrollkeeper-install
/usr/bin/scrollkeeper-preinstall
/usr/bin/scrollkeeper-rebuilddb
/usr/bin/scrollkeeper-uninstall
/usr/bin/scrollkeeper-update
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/48
/usr/lib/.build-id/48/caafd1d5e7cf8ac3d3743bcdb358fa1e3d37fa
/usr/lib/.build-id/90
/usr/lib/.build-id/90/6de7e3ad115774032117dd2fd6677faeebce80
/usr/lib/.build-id/92
/usr/lib/.build-id/92/6f6990293f6321e2e4b66a055d8b7575a31bc4
/usr/lib/.build-id/d4
/usr/lib/.build-id/d4/2b361e3c8807ab687412fc04a583f4abb1ac85
/usr/share/xml/scrollkeeper
/usr/share/xml/scrollkeeper/dtds
/usr/share/xml/scrollkeeper/dtds/scrollkeeper-omf.dtd

References

Summary

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