How To Install rpminspect on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install rpminspect on Rocky Linux 8. rpminspect is Build deviation compliance tool

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install rpminspect on Rocky Linux 8.

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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rpminspect.

Install rpminspect 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 rpminspect using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install rpminspect

Install rpminspect 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 rpminspect using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install rpminspect

How To Uninstall rpminspect on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove rpminspect

rpminspect Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/rpminspect
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ae
/usr/lib/.build-id/ae/933f51584b90494b6a972cf4ee019aca0f60bc
/usr/share/doc/rpminspect
/usr/share/doc/rpminspect/AUTHORS.md
/usr/share/doc/rpminspect/README.md
/usr/share/doc/rpminspect/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/rpminspect
/usr/share/licenses/rpminspect/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/rpminspect.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install rpminspect on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.