How To Install paternoster on Fedora 34

paternoster is Allows to run ansible playbooks like ordinary python or bash scripts

Introduction

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

What is paternoster

Paternoster enables ansible playbooks to be run like normal bash or python scripts. It parses the given parameters using python’s argparse and then passes them on to the actual playbook via the ansible API. In addition it provides an automated way to run commands as another user, which can be used to give normal shell users special privileges, while still having a sleek and easy to understand user interface.

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

Install paternoster 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 paternoster using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install paternoster

Install paternoster 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 paternoster using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install paternoster

How To Uninstall paternoster on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove paternoster

paternoster Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/paternoster
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/paternoster
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/paternoster-3.3.0-py3.9.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/paternoster-3.3.0-py3.9.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/paternoster-3.3.0-py3.9.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/paternoster-3.3.0-py3.9.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/paternoster-3.3.0-py3.9.egg-info/entry_points.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/paternoster-3.3.0-py3.9.egg-info/requires.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/paternoster-3.3.0-py3.9.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/paternoster-3.3.0-py3.9.egg-info/zip-safe
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/paternoster/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/paternoster/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/paternoster/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/paternoster/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/paternoster/__pycache__/paternoster.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/paternoster/__pycache__/paternoster.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/paternoster/__pycache__/root.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/paternoster/__pycache__/root.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/paternoster/__pycache__/shebang.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/paternoster/__pycache__/shebang.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/paternoster/paternoster.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/paternoster/root.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/paternoster/runners
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/paternoster/runners/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/paternoster/runners/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/paternoster/runners/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/paternoster/runners/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/paternoster/runners/__pycache__/ansiblerunner.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/paternoster/runners/__pycache__/ansiblerunner.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/paternoster/runners/ansiblerunner.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/paternoster/shebang.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/paternoster/types
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/paternoster/types/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/paternoster/types/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/paternoster/types/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/paternoster/types/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/share/doc/paternoster
/usr/share/doc/paternoster/README.md
/usr/share/doc/paternoster/script_development.md
/usr/share/licenses/paternoster
/usr/share/licenses/paternoster/LICENSE.txt

References

Summary

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