How To Install eetpack 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 libeet-bin

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install libeet-bin

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

What is eetpack 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 eetpack 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 eetpack 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 eetpack using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libeet-bin

Install eetpack on CentOS 8 using yum

Because eetpack 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 eetpack package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libeet-bin

How to upgrade (update) a single package eetpack using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

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

yum update libeet-bin

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade libeet-bin

How to Upgrade eetpack 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 libeet-bin

How To remove eetpack from CentOS 8

To uninstall only the eetpack package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove libeet-bin

Extra info and code examples

Eet is a tiny library designed to write an arbitrary set of chunks of data to a file and optionally compress each chunk (very much like a zip file) and allows fast random-access reading of the file later on. It does not do zip as zip itself has more complexity than needed, and it was much simpler to implement this once here. This package contains eet, an utility that allows you to extract, insert, encode and decode config blobs created with libeet.

Conclusion

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

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