How To Install debbuild on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install debbuild on Fedora 34.
What is debbuild
debbuild attempts to build Debian-friendly semi-native packages from RPM spec files, RPM-friendly tarballs, and RPM source packages (.src.rpm files). It accepts most of the options rpmbuild does, and should be able to interpret most spec files usefully.
We can use yum or dnf to install debbuild on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install debbuild.
Install debbuild 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 debbuild using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install debbuild
Install debbuild 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 debbuild using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install debbuild
How To Uninstall debbuild on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the debbuild package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove debbuild
debbuild Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/debbuild
/usr/bin/debbuild
/usr/lib/debbuild
/usr/lib/debbuild/debrc
/usr/lib/debbuild/find-lang.pl
/usr/lib/debbuild/macros
/usr/lib/debbuild/macros.d
/usr/lib/debbuild/macros.d/macros.00platform
/usr/lib/debbuild/macros.d/macros.sysutils
/usr/lib/debbuild/macros.d/macros.texlive
/usr/share/doc/debbuild
/usr/share/doc/debbuild/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/debbuild
/usr/share/licenses/debbuild/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/debbuild.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/debbuild.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/debbuild.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/debbuild.mo
/usr/share/man/man8/debbuild.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install debbuild on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.