How To Install rpminspect on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install rpminspect in Fedora 36. rpminspect is Build deviation compliance tool

Introduction

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

What is `rpminspect`

Build deviation and compliance tool. This program runs a number of tests against one or two builds of source RPM files. The built artifacts are inspected and compared to report changes and validate policy compliance against the defined parameters.

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

Install rpminspect 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 rpminspect using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install rpminspect

Install rpminspect 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 rpminspect using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install rpminspect

How To Uninstall rpminspect on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove rpminspect

rpminspect Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/rpminspect
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/47
/usr/lib/.build-id/47/c19a451733589e9a275d9f66c141e08ebb0ad5
/usr/share/doc/rpminspect
/usr/share/doc/rpminspect/AUTHORS.md
/usr/share/doc/rpminspect/CHANGES.md
/usr/share/doc/rpminspect/README.md
/usr/share/doc/rpminspect/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/rpminspect
/usr/share/licenses/rpminspect/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/ru_RU/LC_MESSAGES/rpminspect.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/rpminspect.1.gz

References

rpminspect website

Summary

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