How To Install debci-collector on CentOS 8

One-liner Install Command

If you are only interested in the installation command, here is a quick answer for you:

sudo yum makecache && sudo yum -y install debci

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install debci

But if you are interested in the details with step-by-step instructions, the following information will be helpful.

What is debci-collector and How to Install It?

First things first, you will need access to a server or computer running CentOS 8. This guide was written specifically with a server running CentOS 8 in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install debci-collector on CentOS 8. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install debci-collector on CentOS 8 using dnf

First, update dnf packages database with dnf by running the next command:

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating database, You can install debci-collector using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install debci

Install debci-collector on CentOS 8 using yum

Because debci-collector is available in CentOS 8’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the yum packaging system.

To begin, update local packages database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

Now can install debci-collector package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install debci

How to upgrade (update) a single package debci-collector using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

If you want to update a specific package like debci-collector in this example you should use the following command:

yum update debci

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade debci

How to Upgrade debci-collector on CentOS 8 with dnf?

When you run the dnf update, all system packages with available updates are updated. However, if you want to upgrade a single package, then you would have to pass the package name as the argument to the dnf update command.

dnf update debci

How To remove debci-collector from CentOS 8

To uninstall only the debci-collector package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove debci

Extra info and code examples

debci will scan the Debian archive for packages that contain DEP-8 compliant test suites, and run those test suites whenever a new version of the package, or of any package in its dependency chain (modulo the base system), is available. The requests are distributed to worker machines through AMQP queues. You need rabbitmq-server for this; but it is also possible to run RabbitMQ on a different server than debci, in which case you do not need to install that recommendation. This package contains the debci core.

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install debci-collector using dnf and yum package managers. Also, we showed how to update manually as a single package and different ways to uninstall the debci-collector from CentOS 8.

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