How To Install dselect on Fedora 34
dselect is Debian package management front-end
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dselect on Fedora 34.
What is dselect
dselect is a high-level interface for managing the installation and removal of Debian software packages. Many users find dselect intimidating and new users may prefer to use apt-based user interfaces.
We can use yum or dnf to install dselect on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dselect.
Install dselect 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 dselect using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install dselect
Install dselect 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 dselect using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install dselect
How To Uninstall dselect on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the dselect package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove dselect
dselect Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/dpkg/dselect.cfg
/etc/dpkg/dselect.cfg.d
/usr/bin/dselect
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/76
/usr/lib/.build-id/76/315d5ade6564207b71d3f8602e86a618a7db54
/usr/libexec/dpkg/methods
/usr/libexec/dpkg/methods/disk
/usr/libexec/dpkg/methods/disk/desc.mounted
/usr/libexec/dpkg/methods/disk/install
/usr/libexec/dpkg/methods/disk/names
/usr/libexec/dpkg/methods/disk/setup
/usr/libexec/dpkg/methods/disk/update
/usr/libexec/dpkg/methods/ftp
/usr/libexec/dpkg/methods/ftp/desc.ftp
/usr/libexec/dpkg/methods/ftp/install
/usr/libexec/dpkg/methods/ftp/names
/usr/libexec/dpkg/methods/ftp/setup
/usr/libexec/dpkg/methods/ftp/update
/usr/libexec/dpkg/methods/multicd
/usr/libexec/dpkg/methods/multicd/desc.multi_cd
/usr/libexec/dpkg/methods/multicd/install
/usr/libexec/dpkg/methods/multicd/names
/usr/libexec/dpkg/methods/multicd/setup
/usr/libexec/dpkg/methods/multicd/update
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/tl/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/man/de/man1/dselect.1.gz
/usr/share/man/de/man5/dselect.cfg.5.gz
/usr/share/man/es/man5/dselect.cfg.5.gz
/usr/share/man/fr/man5/dselect.cfg.5.gz
/usr/share/man/hu/man5/dselect.cfg.5.gz
/usr/share/man/it/man5/dselect.cfg.5.gz
/usr/share/man/ja/man5/dselect.cfg.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/dselect.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/dselect.cfg.5.gz
/usr/share/man/nl/man1/dselect.1.gz
/usr/share/man/nl/man5/dselect.cfg.5.gz
/usr/share/man/pl/man5/dselect.cfg.5.gz
/usr/share/man/pt/man1/dselect.1.gz
/usr/share/man/pt/man5/dselect.cfg.5.gz
/usr/share/man/sv/man5/dselect.cfg.5.gz
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Dselect
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Dselect/Ftp.pm
/var/lib/dpkg/methods
/var/lib/dpkg/methods/disk
/var/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp
/var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt
/var/lib/dpkg/methods/multicd
/etc/dpkg/dselect.cfg
/etc/dpkg/dselect.cfg.d
/usr/bin/dselect
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/cb
/usr/lib/.build-id/cb/58e6136d5256fca07e59d30d46d67a569a065f
/usr/libexec/dpkg/methods
/usr/libexec/dpkg/methods/disk
/usr/libexec/dpkg/methods/disk/desc.mounted
/usr/libexec/dpkg/methods/disk/install
/usr/libexec/dpkg/methods/disk/names
/usr/libexec/dpkg/methods/disk/setup
/usr/libexec/dpkg/methods/disk/update
/usr/libexec/dpkg/methods/ftp
/usr/libexec/dpkg/methods/ftp/desc.ftp
/usr/libexec/dpkg/methods/ftp/install
/usr/libexec/dpkg/methods/ftp/names
/usr/libexec/dpkg/methods/ftp/setup
/usr/libexec/dpkg/methods/ftp/update
/usr/libexec/dpkg/methods/multicd
/usr/libexec/dpkg/methods/multicd/desc.multi_cd
/usr/libexec/dpkg/methods/multicd/install
/usr/libexec/dpkg/methods/multicd/names
/usr/libexec/dpkg/methods/multicd/setup
/usr/libexec/dpkg/methods/multicd/update
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/tl/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/dselect.mo
/usr/share/man/de/man1/dselect.1.gz
/usr/share/man/de/man5/dselect.cfg.5.gz
/usr/share/man/es/man5/dselect.cfg.5.gz
/usr/share/man/fr/man5/dselect.cfg.5.gz
/usr/share/man/hu/man5/dselect.cfg.5.gz
/usr/share/man/it/man5/dselect.cfg.5.gz
/usr/share/man/ja/man5/dselect.cfg.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/dselect.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/dselect.cfg.5.gz
/usr/share/man/nl/man1/dselect.1.gz
/usr/share/man/nl/man5/dselect.cfg.5.gz
/usr/share/man/pl/man5/dselect.cfg.5.gz
/usr/share/man/pt/man1/dselect.1.gz
/usr/share/man/pt/man5/dselect.cfg.5.gz
/usr/share/man/sv/man5/dselect.cfg.5.gz
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Dselect
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Dselect/Ftp.pm
/var/lib/dpkg/methods
/var/lib/dpkg/methods/disk
/var/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp
/var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt
/var/lib/dpkg/methods/multicd
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dselect on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
