How To Install rpmspectool on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rpmspectool on Fedora 34.
What is rpmspectool
The rpmspectool utility lets users expand and download sources and patches in RPM spec files.
We can use yum or dnf to install rpmspectool on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rpmspectool.
Install rpmspectool 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 rpmspectool using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install rpmspectool
Install rpmspectool 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 rpmspectool using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install rpmspectool
How To Uninstall rpmspectool on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the rpmspectool package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove rpmspectool
rpmspectool Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/rpmspectool
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/rpmspectool
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/rpmspectool-1.99.7-py3.9.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/rpmspectool-1.99.7-py3.9.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/rpmspectool-1.99.7-py3.9.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/rpmspectool-1.99.7-py3.9.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/rpmspectool-1.99.7-py3.9.egg-info/entry_points.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/rpmspectool-1.99.7-py3.9.egg-info/requires.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/rpmspectool-1.99.7-py3.9.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/rpmspectool/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/rpmspectool/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/rpmspectool/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/rpmspectool/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/rpmspectool/__pycache__/cli.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/rpmspectool/__pycache__/cli.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/rpmspectool/__pycache__/download.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/rpmspectool/__pycache__/download.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/rpmspectool/__pycache__/i18n.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/rpmspectool/__pycache__/i18n.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/rpmspectool/__pycache__/rpm.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/rpmspectool/__pycache__/rpm.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/rpmspectool/__pycache__/version.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/rpmspectool/__pycache__/version.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/rpmspectool/cli.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/rpmspectool/download.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/rpmspectool/i18n.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/rpmspectool/rpm.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/rpmspectool/version.py
/usr/share/bash-completion
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/rpmspectool
/usr/share/doc/rpmspectool
/usr/share/doc/rpmspectool/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/rpmspectool
/usr/share/licenses/rpmspectool/COPYING
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rpmspectool on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
