How To Install create-fake-rpm on AlmaLinux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install create-fake-rpm
on AlmaLinux 8.
What is create-fake-rpm
A tool to generate an (s)rpm with faked provides. It may be useful when you install some library/module/application manually - without having an RPM package. E.g., when you pip install somepackage And when some RPM package
Requires refuses to install such package, because
python-somepackageis not present on your system. RPMDB does not know what you know. So you can run create-fake-rpm --build python-somepackage python3dist(somepackage) This create package
fake-python-somepackage-0-0.noarch.rpm` which provides “python-somepackage” and “python3dist(somepackage)”. You can install it using dnf install fake-python-somepackage-0-0.noarch.rpm
We can use yum
or dnf
to install create-fake-rpm
on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install create-fake-rpm.
Install create-fake-rpm on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install create-fake-rpm
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install create-fake-rpm
Install create-fake-rpm on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install create-fake-rpm
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install create-fake-rpm
How To Uninstall create-fake-rpm on AlmaLinux 8
To uninstall only the create-fake-rpm
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove create-fake-rpm
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install create-fake-rpm
on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.