How To Install pbuilder on Fedora 34
pbuilder is Personal package builder for Debian packages
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pbuilder on Fedora 34.
What is pbuilder
pbuilder constructs a chroot system, and builds a package inside the chroot. It is an ideal system to use to check that a package has correct build- dependencies.
We can use yum or dnf to install pbuilder on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install pbuilder.
Install pbuilder 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 pbuilder using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install pbuilder
Install pbuilder 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 pbuilder using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install pbuilder
How To Uninstall pbuilder on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the pbuilder package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove pbuilder
pbuilder Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/pbuilder
/etc/pbuilder/buildd-config.sh
/etc/pbuilderrc
/usr/bin/debuild-pbuilder
/usr/bin/pdebuild
/usr/lib/pbuilder
/usr/lib/pbuilder/pbuilder-apt-config
/usr/lib/pbuilder/pbuilder-buildpackage
/usr/lib/pbuilder/pbuilder-buildpackage-funcs
/usr/lib/pbuilder/pbuilder-checkparams
/usr/lib/pbuilder/pbuilder-createbuildenv
/usr/lib/pbuilder/pbuilder-loadconfig
/usr/lib/pbuilder/pbuilder-modules
/usr/lib/pbuilder/pbuilder-runhooks
/usr/lib/pbuilder/pbuilder-satisfydepends
/usr/lib/pbuilder/pbuilder-satisfydepends-apt
/usr/lib/pbuilder/pbuilder-satisfydepends-aptitude
/usr/lib/pbuilder/pbuilder-satisfydepends-checkparams
/usr/lib/pbuilder/pbuilder-satisfydepends-classic
/usr/lib/pbuilder/pbuilder-satisfydepends-experimental
/usr/lib/pbuilder/pbuilder-satisfydepends-funcs
/usr/lib/pbuilder/pbuilder-satisfydepends-gdebi
/usr/lib/pbuilder/pbuilder-unshare-wrapper
/usr/lib/pbuilder/pbuilder-updatebuildenv
/usr/lib/pbuilder/pdebuild-checkparams
/usr/lib/pbuilder/pdebuild-internal
/usr/sbin/pbuilder
/usr/share/bash-completion
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/pbuilder
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/README
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/README.fedora
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/TODO
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/B20autopkgtest
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/B90lintian
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/B90list-missing
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/B91debc
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/B91dpkg-i
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/B92test-pkg
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/C10shell
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/C11screen
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/D10tmp
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/D20addnonfree
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/D65various-compiler-support
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/D80no-man-db-rebuild
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/D90chrootmemo
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/F90chrootmemo
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/execute_installtest.sh
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/execute_paramtest.sh
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/lvmpbuilder
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/lvmpbuilder/README
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/lvmpbuilder/STRATEGY
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/lvmpbuilder/lib
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/lvmpbuilder/lib/lvmbuilder-checkparams
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/lvmpbuilder/lib/lvmbuilder-modules
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/lvmpbuilder/lib/lvmbuilder-unimplemented
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/lvmpbuilder/lvmbuilder
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/pbuildd
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/pbuildd/buildd.sh
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/pbuildd/hookdir
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/pbuildd/hookdir/A10dpkg-l.sh
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/pbuilder-distribution.sh
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/pbuilder-test
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/pbuilder-test/000_prepinstall
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/pbuilder-test/001_apprun
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/pbuilder-test/002_libfile
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/pbuilder-test/002_sample.c
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/pbuilder-test/003_makecheck
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/pbuilder-test/004_ldd
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/pbuilder-test/README
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/pbuilderrc
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/rebuild
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/rebuild/README
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/rebuild/buildall
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/examples/rebuild/getlist
/usr/share/doc/pbuilder/pbuilder-doc.pdf
/usr/share/man/man1/debuild-pbuilder.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pdebuild.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/pbuilderrc.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/pbuilder.8.gz
/usr/share/pbuilder
/usr/share/pbuilder/pbuilderrc
/var/cache/pbuilder/ccache
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pbuilder on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.