centpkg is CentOS utility for working with dist-git
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install centpkg on CentOS 8.
What is centpkg
Provides the centpkg command for working with dist-git.
We can use yum or dnf to install centpkg on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install centpkg.
Install centpkg on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install centpkg using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install centpkg
Install centpkg on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install centpkg using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install centpkg
How To Uninstall centpkg on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the centpkg package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove centpkg
centpkg Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/koji.conf.d/stream.conf
/etc/rpkg/centpkg.conf
/usr/bin/centpkg
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/centpkg
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/centpkg-0.6.6-py3.6.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/centpkg-0.6.6-py3.6.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/centpkg-0.6.6-py3.6.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/centpkg-0.6.6-py3.6.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/centpkg-0.6.6-py3.6.egg-info/requires.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/centpkg-0.6.6-py3.6.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/centpkg/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/centpkg/__main__.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/centpkg/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/centpkg/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/centpkg/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/centpkg/__pycache__/__main__.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/centpkg/__pycache__/__main__.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/centpkg/__pycache__/centos_cert.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/centpkg/__pycache__/centos_cert.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/centpkg/__pycache__/cli.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/centpkg/__pycache__/cli.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/centpkg/__pycache__/lookaside.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/centpkg/__pycache__/lookaside.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/centpkg/__pycache__/utils.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/centpkg/__pycache__/utils.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/centpkg/centos_cert.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/centpkg/cli.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/centpkg/lookaside.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/centpkg/utils.py
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/centpkg
/usr/share/doc/centpkg
/usr/share/doc/centpkg/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/centpkg
/usr/share/licenses/centpkg/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/centpkg.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install centpkg on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
