How To Install freight on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install freight on CentOS 7. freight is A modern take on the Debian archive

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install freight on CentOS 7.

What is freight

freight programs create the files needed to serve a Debian archive. The actual serving is done via your favorite HTTP server.

We can use yum or dnf to install freight on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install freight.

Install freight on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install freight using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install freight

Install freight 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.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install freight using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install freight

How To Uninstall freight on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove freight

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install freight on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.