How To Install reprepro on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install reprepro on CentOS 7.
What is reprepro
reprepro is a tool to manage a repository of Debian packages (.deb). It stores files either being injected manually or downloaded from some other repository (partially) mirrored into one pool/ hierarchy. Managed packages and files are stored in a Berkeley DB, so no database server is needed. Checking signatures of mirrored repositories and creating signatures of the generated Package indexes is supported.
We can use yum or dnf to install reprepro on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install reprepro.
Install reprepro on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install reprepro using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install reprepro
Install reprepro 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 reprepro using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install reprepro
How To Uninstall reprepro on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the reprepro package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove reprepro
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install reprepro on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
