How To Install yamllint on CentOS 8

yamllint is A linter for YAML files

Introduction

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

What is yamllint

A linter for YAML files. yamllint does not only check for syntax validity, but for weirdnesses like key repetition and cosmetic problems such as lines length, trailing spaces, indentation, etc.

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

Install yamllint 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 yamllint using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install yamllint

Install yamllint 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 yamllint using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install yamllint

How To Uninstall yamllint on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove yamllint

yamllint Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/yamllint
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint-1.26.0-py3.6.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint-1.26.0-py3.6.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint-1.26.0-py3.6.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint-1.26.0-py3.6.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint-1.26.0-py3.6.egg-info/entry_points.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint-1.26.0-py3.6.egg-info/requires.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint-1.26.0-py3.6.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/__main__.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/__pycache__/__main__.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/__pycache__/__main__.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/__pycache__/cli.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/__pycache__/cli.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/__pycache__/config.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/__pycache__/config.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/__pycache__/linter.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/__pycache__/linter.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/__pycache__/parser.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/__pycache__/parser.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/cli.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/conf
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/conf/default.yaml
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/conf/relaxed.yaml
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/config.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/linter.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/parser.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/braces.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/braces.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/brackets.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/brackets.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/colons.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/colons.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/commas.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/commas.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/comments.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/comments.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/comments_indentation.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/comments_indentation.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/common.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/common.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/document_end.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/document_end.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/document_start.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/document_start.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/empty_lines.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/empty_lines.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/empty_values.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/empty_values.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/hyphens.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/hyphens.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/indentation.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/indentation.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/key_duplicates.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/key_duplicates.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/key_ordering.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/key_ordering.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/line_length.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/line_length.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/new_line_at_end_of_file.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/new_line_at_end_of_file.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/new_lines.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/new_lines.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/octal_values.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/octal_values.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/quoted_strings.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/quoted_strings.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/trailing_spaces.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/trailing_spaces.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/truthy.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/truthy.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules/braces.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules/brackets.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules/colons.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules/commas.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules/comments.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules/comments_indentation.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules/common.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules/document_end.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules/document_start.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules/empty_lines.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules/empty_values.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules/hyphens.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules/indentation.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules/key_duplicates.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules/key_ordering.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules/line_length.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules/new_line_at_end_of_file.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules/new_lines.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules/octal_values.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules/quoted_strings.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules/trailing_spaces.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/yamllint/rules/truthy.py
/usr/share/doc/yamllint
/usr/share/doc/yamllint/README.rst
/usr/share/licenses/yamllint
/usr/share/licenses/yamllint/LICENSE

References

Summary

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