How To Install freight on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install freight on Rocky Linux 8.
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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install freight.
Install freight on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install freight using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install freight
Install freight on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install freight using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install freight
How To Uninstall freight on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the freight package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove freight
freight Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/etc/freight.conf
/usr/bin/freight
/usr/bin/freight-add
/usr/bin/freight-cache
/usr/bin/freight-clear-cache
/usr/bin/freight-init
/usr/share/doc/freight
/usr/share/doc/freight/NOTES
/usr/share/doc/freight/README.md
/usr/share/freight
/usr/share/freight/apt.sh
/usr/share/freight/conf.sh
/usr/share/licenses/freight
/usr/share/licenses/freight/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/freight-add.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/freight-cache.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/freight-clear-cache.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/freight-init.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/freight.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/freight.5.gz
/var/cache/freight
/var/lib/freight
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install freight on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.