How To Install pykickstart on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pykickstart on Fedora 34.
What is pykickstart
Python utilities for manipulating kickstart files.
We can use yum or dnf to install pykickstart on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install pykickstart.
Install pykickstart 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 pykickstart using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install pykickstart
Install pykickstart 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 pykickstart using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install pykickstart
How To Uninstall pykickstart on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the pykickstart package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove pykickstart
pykickstart Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/ksflatten
/usr/bin/ksshell
/usr/bin/ksvalidator
/usr/bin/ksverdiff
/usr/share/doc/pykickstart
/usr/share/doc/pykickstart/README.rst
/usr/share/doc/pykickstart/kickstart.vim
/usr/share/licenses/pykickstart
/usr/share/licenses/pykickstart/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/ksflatten.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ksshell.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ksvalidator.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ksverdiff.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pykickstart on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
