How To Install make_work on Fedora 34

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 boinc-dbg

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install boinc-dbg

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

What is make_work and How to Install It?

First things first, you will need access to a server or computer running Fedora 34. This guide was written specifically with a server running Fedora 34 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 make_work on Fedora 34. 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 make_work on Fedora 34 using dnf

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

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating database, You can install make_work using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install boinc-dbg

Install make_work on Fedora 34 using yum

Because make_work is available in Fedora 34’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 make_work package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install boinc-dbg

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

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

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

yum update boinc-dbg

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade boinc-dbg

How to Upgrade make_work on Fedora 34 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 boinc-dbg

How To remove make_work from Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove boinc-dbg

Extra info and code examples

The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) is a software platform for distributed computing using volunteered computer resources. This package contains unstripped versions of all binaries included in the BOINC client packages. It is provided primarily to provide a backtrace with names in a debugger, this makes it somewhat easier to interpret core dumps. For installations running a BOINC server locally, it may be of interest to also install the boinc-server-dbg package.

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install make_work using dnf and yum package managers. Also, we showed how to update manually as a single package and different ways to uninstall the make_work from Fedora 34.

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