How To Install freight on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install freight in Fedora 36. freight is A modern take on the Debian archive

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install freight on Fedora 36.

What is `freight`

freight programs create the files needed to serve a Debian archive. The actual serving is done via your favorite HTTP server.

We can use yum or dnf to install freight on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install freight.

Install freight on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install freight using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install freight

Install freight on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install freight using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install freight

How To Uninstall freight on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove freight

freight Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/freight.conf
/usr/bin/freight
/usr/bin/freight-add
/usr/bin/freight-cache
/usr/bin/freight-clear-cache
/usr/bin/freight-init
/usr/share/doc/freight
/usr/share/doc/freight/NOTES
/usr/share/doc/freight/README.md
/usr/share/freight
/usr/share/freight/apt.sh
/usr/share/freight/conf.sh
/usr/share/licenses/freight
/usr/share/licenses/freight/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/freight-add.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/freight-cache.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/freight-clear-cache.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/freight-init.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/freight.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/freight.5.gz
/var/cache/freight
/var/lib/freight

References

freight website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install freight on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).