How To Install fedpkg on Fedora 34

fedpkg is Fedora utility for working with dist-git

Introduction

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

What is fedpkg

Provides the fedpkg command for working with dist-git

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

Install fedpkg 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 fedpkg using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fedpkg

Install fedpkg 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 fedpkg using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fedpkg

How To Uninstall fedpkg on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove fedpkg

fedpkg Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/rpkg/fedpkg.conf
/usr/bin/fedpkg
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/fedpkg
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/fedpkg-1.40-py3.9.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/fedpkg-1.40-py3.9.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/fedpkg-1.40-py3.9.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/fedpkg-1.40-py3.9.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/fedpkg-1.40-py3.9.egg-info/entry_points.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/fedpkg-1.40-py3.9.egg-info/requires.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/fedpkg-1.40-py3.9.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/fedpkg/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/fedpkg/__main__.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/fedpkg/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/fedpkg/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/fedpkg/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/fedpkg/__pycache__/__main__.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/fedpkg/__pycache__/__main__.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/fedpkg/__pycache__/bugzilla.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/fedpkg/__pycache__/bugzilla.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/fedpkg/__pycache__/cli.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/fedpkg/__pycache__/cli.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/fedpkg/__pycache__/lookaside.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/fedpkg/__pycache__/lookaside.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/fedpkg/__pycache__/utils.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/fedpkg/__pycache__/utils.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/fedpkg/bugzilla.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/fedpkg/cli.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/fedpkg/lookaside.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/fedpkg/utils.py
/usr/share/bash-completion
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/fedpkg.bash
/usr/share/doc/fedpkg
/usr/share/doc/fedpkg/CHANGELOG.rst
/usr/share/doc/fedpkg/README.rst
/usr/share/licenses/fedpkg
/usr/share/licenses/fedpkg/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/fedpkg.1.gz
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_fedpkg

References

Summary

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