How To Install cekit on Fedora 34

cekit is Container image creation tool

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cekit on Fedora 34.

What is cekit

CEKit helps to build container images from image definition files

We can use yum or dnf to install cekit on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cekit.

Install cekit on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install cekit using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install cekit

Install cekit on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install cekit using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cekit

How To Uninstall cekit on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove cekit

cekit Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/cekit
/usr/bin/cekit-cache
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/cekit
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/cekit-3.9-py3.9.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/cekit-3.9-py3.9.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/cekit-3.9-py3.9.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/cekit-3.9-py3.9.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/cekit-3.9-py3.9.egg-info/entry_points.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/cekit-3.9-py3.9.egg-info/requires.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/cekit-3.9-py3.9.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/cekit/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/cekit/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/cekit/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
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/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/cekit/__pycache__/config.cpython-39.pyc
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/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/cekit/__pycache__/crypto.cpython-39.pyc
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/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/cekit/builders/__pycache__/buildah.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/cekit/builders/__pycache__/buildah.cpython-39.pyc
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/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/cekit/cache/cli.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/cekit/cli.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/cekit/config.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/cekit/crypto.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/cekit/descriptor
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/cekit/descriptor/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/cekit/descriptor/__pycache__
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References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cekit on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.