How To Install nd_backport 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 neurodebian-dev

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install neurodebian-dev

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

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

sudo dnf -y install neurodebian-dev

Install nd_backport on CentOS 8 using yum

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

sudo yum -y install neurodebian-dev

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

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

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

yum update neurodebian-dev

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade neurodebian-dev

How to Upgrade nd_backport 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 neurodebian-dev

How To remove nd_backport from CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove neurodebian-dev

Extra info and code examples

The NeuroDebian project integrates and maintains a variety of software projects within Debian that are useful for neuroscience (such as AFNI, FSL, PsychoPy, etc.) or generic computation (such as HTCondor, pandas, etc.). This package provides sources and development tools used by NeuroDebian to provide backports for a range of Debian/Ubuntu releases.

Conclusion

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

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