How To Install shortrpm on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install shortrpm
on CentOS 7.
What is shortrpm
shortrpm tricks rpmbuild(1) into thinking certain scriptlets in SPEC file are empty, effectively skipping their run and proceeding to build the binary package from files from previous %install scriptlet run in BuildRoot. The trickery only takes place if both -bb and –short-circuit options are specified.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install shortrpm
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install shortrpm.
Install shortrpm on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install shortrpm
using yum
by running the following command:
Install shortrpm 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.
After updating yum database, We can install shortrpm
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall shortrpm on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the shortrpm
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install shortrpm
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.