How To Install gnome-pkg-tools on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-pkg-tools in Fedora 36. gnome-pkg-tools is Tools for the Debian GNOME Packaging Team

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-pkg-tools on Fedora 36.

What is `gnome-pkg-tools`

This package contains some tools useful for the Debian GNOME Packaging Team including * Documentation. * The list of team members. * A number of rules files for CDBS that are helpful for GNOME packages - but may also be useful for others. This package is useful when building Debian packages on Fedora, for instance via pbuilder.

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

Install gnome-pkg-tools 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 gnome-pkg-tools using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gnome-pkg-tools

Install gnome-pkg-tools 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 gnome-pkg-tools using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gnome-pkg-tools

How To Uninstall gnome-pkg-tools on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the gnome-pkg-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove gnome-pkg-tools

gnome-pkg-tools Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/desktop-check-mime-types
/usr/bin/dh_gnome
/usr/bin/dh_gnome_clean
/usr/share/gnome-pkg-tools
/usr/share/gnome-pkg-tools/1
/usr/share/gnome-pkg-tools/1/rules
/usr/share/gnome-pkg-tools/1/rules/check-dist.mk
/usr/share/gnome-pkg-tools/1/rules/clean-la.mk
/usr/share/gnome-pkg-tools/1/rules/gnome-get-source.mk
/usr/share/gnome-pkg-tools/1/rules/gnome-version.mk
/usr/share/gnome-pkg-tools/1/rules/patch-translations.mk
/usr/share/gnome-pkg-tools/1/rules/uploaders.mk
/usr/share/gnome-pkg-tools/control.header
/usr/share/gnome-pkg-tools/pkg-gnome.team
/usr/share/licenses/gnome-pkg-tools
/usr/share/licenses/gnome-pkg-tools/copyright
/usr/share/man/man1/desktop-check-mime-types.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/dh_gnome.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/dh_gnome_clean.1.gz
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Debian/Debhelper/Sequence/gnome.pm

References

gnome-pkg-tools website

Summary

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