How To Install create-fake-rpm on CentOS 8

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install create-fake-rpm on CentOS 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 packagefake-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 CentOS 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 CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install create-fake-rpm using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install create-fake-rpm

Install create-fake-rpm on CentOS 8 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install create-fake-rpm using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install create-fake-rpm

How To Uninstall create-fake-rpm on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the create-fake-rpm package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove create-fake-rpm

References

• create-fake-rpm website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install create-fake-rpm on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.