How To Install plainbox-manifest-collect 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 python3-plainbox

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install python3-plainbox

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

What is plainbox-manifest-collect 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 plainbox-manifest-collect 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 plainbox-manifest-collect 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 plainbox-manifest-collect using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install python3-plainbox

Install plainbox-manifest-collect on CentOS 8 using yum

Because plainbox-manifest-collect 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 plainbox-manifest-collect package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install python3-plainbox

How to upgrade (update) a single package plainbox-manifest-collect using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

If you want to update a specific package like plainbox-manifest-collect in this example you should use the following command:

yum update python3-plainbox

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade python3-plainbox

How to Upgrade plainbox-manifest-collect 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 python3-plainbox

How To remove plainbox-manifest-collect from CentOS 8

To uninstall only the plainbox-manifest-collect package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove python3-plainbox

Extra info and code examples

PlainBox is a toolkit consisting of python3 library, development tools, documentation and examples. It is targeted at developers working on testing or certification applications and authors creating tests for such applications. PlainBox can be used to both create simple and comprehensive test tools as well as to develop and execute test jobs and test scenarios. It was created as a refined and rewritten core of the Checkbox project. It has a well tested and documented core, small but active development community and a collection of associated projects that use it as a lower-level engine/back-end library. PlainBox has a novel approach to discovering (and probing) hardware and software that is extensible and not hardwired into the system. It allows test developers to express association between a particular test and the hardware, software and configuration constraints that must be met for the test to execute meaningfully. This feature, along with pluggable test definitions, makes plainbox flexible and applicable to many diverse testing situations, ranging from mobile phones, traditional desktop computers, servers and up to testing "cloud" installations. This package contains the plainbox python3 library.

Conclusion

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

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