How To Install rpminspect on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rpminspect on CentOS 7.
What is rpminspect
Build deviation and compliance tool. This program runs a number of tests against one or two builds of source RPM files. The built artifacts are inspected and compared to report changes and validate policy compliance against the defined parameters.
We can use yum or dnf to install rpminspect on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rpminspect.
Install rpminspect on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install rpminspect using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install rpminspect
Install rpminspect 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 rpminspect using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install rpminspect
How To Uninstall rpminspect on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the rpminspect package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove rpminspect
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rpminspect on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
