How To Install debootstrap on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install debootstrap
on CentOS 7.
What is debootstrap
debootstrap is used to create a Debian base system from scratch, without requiring the availability of dpkg or apt. It does this by downloading .deb files from a mirror site, and carefully unpacking them into a directory which can eventually be chrooted into. This might be often useful coupled with virtualization techniques to run Debian GNU/Linux guest system.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install debootstrap
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install debootstrap.
Install debootstrap on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install debootstrap
using yum
by running the following command:
Install debootstrap on CentOS 7 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.
After updating yum database, We can install debootstrap
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall debootstrap on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the debootstrap
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install debootstrap
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.