How To Install fbrnch on Fedora 34

fbrnch is Fedora packager tool to build package branches

Introduction

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

What is fbrnch

Fbrnch is a convenient packaging tool for Fedora Packagers, with integration for Bugzilla, Koji, and Bodhi. Features include - merging and building a package across release branches - automated parallel builds of sets of packages in dependency order - creating, updating and listing one’s package reviews - requesting repos for new approved packages and branch requests - import srpms from package reviews - progressive copr builds - and many more commands.

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

Install fbrnch 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 fbrnch using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fbrnch

Install fbrnch 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 fbrnch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fbrnch

How To Uninstall fbrnch on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove fbrnch

fbrnch Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/fbrnch
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6b
/usr/lib/.build-id/6b/33f9fae1fdaeb9e12fddbd773f794961857a36
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/fbrnch
/usr/share/doc/fbrnch
/usr/share/doc/fbrnch/CHANGELOG.md
/usr/share/doc/fbrnch/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/fbrnch
/usr/share/licenses/fbrnch/LICENSE
/usr/share/licenses/fbrnch/LICENSE.bodhi-hs
/usr/share/licenses/fbrnch/LICENSE.copr-hs
/usr/share/licenses/fbrnch/LICENSE.fedora-dists
/usr/share/licenses/fbrnch/LICENSE.pagure-hs
/usr/share/licenses/fbrnch/LICENSE.pdc-hs
/usr/share/man/man1/fbrnch.1.gz
/usr/bin/fbrnch
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/aa
/usr/lib/.build-id/aa/a2a43b80a157b01eb08616dd458b355d4fb41b
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/fbrnch
/usr/share/doc/fbrnch
/usr/share/doc/fbrnch/CHANGELOG.md
/usr/share/doc/fbrnch/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/fbrnch
/usr/share/licenses/fbrnch/LICENSE
/usr/share/licenses/fbrnch/LICENSE.bodhi-hs
/usr/share/licenses/fbrnch/LICENSE.copr-hs
/usr/share/licenses/fbrnch/LICENSE.fedora-dists
/usr/share/licenses/fbrnch/LICENSE.koji-hs
/usr/share/licenses/fbrnch/LICENSE.pagure-hs
/usr/share/licenses/fbrnch/LICENSE.pdc-hs
/usr/share/man/man1/fbrnch.1.gz

References

Summary

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