How To Install paternoster on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install paternoster in Fedora 36. paternoster is Allows to run ansible playbooks like ordinary python or bash scripts

Introduction

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

What is paternoster

Paternoster enables ansible playbooks to be run like normal bash or python scripts. It parses the given parameters using python’s argparse and then passes them on to the actual playbook via the ansible API. In addition it provides an automated way to run commands as another user, which can be used to give normal shell users special privileges, while still having a sleek and easy to understand user interface.

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

Install paternoster 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 paternoster using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install paternoster

Install paternoster 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 paternoster using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install paternoster

How To Uninstall paternoster on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove paternoster

paternoster Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/paternoster
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/paternoster
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/paternoster-3.3.0-py3.10.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/paternoster-3.3.0-py3.10.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/paternoster-3.3.0-py3.10.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/paternoster-3.3.0-py3.10.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/paternoster-3.3.0-py3.10.egg-info/entry_points.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/paternoster-3.3.0-py3.10.egg-info/requires.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/paternoster-3.3.0-py3.10.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/paternoster-3.3.0-py3.10.egg-info/zip-safe
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/paternoster/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/paternoster/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/paternoster/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/paternoster/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/paternoster/__pycache__/paternoster.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/paternoster/__pycache__/paternoster.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/paternoster/__pycache__/root.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/paternoster/__pycache__/root.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/paternoster/__pycache__/shebang.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/paternoster/__pycache__/shebang.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/paternoster/paternoster.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/paternoster/root.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/paternoster/runners
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/paternoster/runners/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/paternoster/runners/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/paternoster/runners/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/paternoster/runners/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/paternoster/runners/__pycache__/ansiblerunner.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/paternoster/runners/__pycache__/ansiblerunner.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/paternoster/runners/ansiblerunner.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/paternoster/shebang.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/paternoster/types
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/paternoster/types/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/paternoster/types/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/paternoster/types/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/paternoster/types/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/share/doc/paternoster
/usr/share/doc/paternoster/README.md
/usr/share/doc/paternoster/script_development.md
/usr/share/licenses/paternoster
/usr/share/licenses/paternoster/LICENSE.txt

References

Summary

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