How To Install debmirror on Fedora 34

debmirror is Debian partial mirror script, with ftp and package pool support

Introduction

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

What is debmirror

This program downloads and maintains a partial local Debian mirror. It can mirror any combination of architectures, distributions and sections. Files are transferred by ftp, http, hftp or rsync, and package pools are fully supported. It also does locking and updates trace files.

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

Install debmirror 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 debmirror using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install debmirror

Install debmirror 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 debmirror using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install debmirror

How To Uninstall debmirror on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove debmirror

debmirror Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/debmirror.conf
/usr/bin/debmirror
/usr/share/doc/debmirror
/usr/share/doc/debmirror/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/debmirror/changelog
/usr/share/doc/debmirror/design.txt
/usr/share/licenses/debmirror
/usr/share/licenses/debmirror/GPL
/usr/share/licenses/debmirror/copyright
/usr/share/man/man1/debmirror.1.gz

References

Summary

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