How To Install sbuildlogs-summarise 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 xbuilder

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install xbuilder

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

What is sbuildlogs-summarise 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 sbuildlogs-summarise 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 sbuildlogs-summarise 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 sbuildlogs-summarise using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install xbuilder

Install sbuildlogs-summarise on CentOS 8 using yum

Because sbuildlogs-summarise 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 sbuildlogs-summarise package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install xbuilder

How to upgrade (update) a single package sbuildlogs-summarise using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

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

yum update xbuilder

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade xbuilder

How to Upgrade sbuildlogs-summarise 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 xbuilder

How To remove sbuildlogs-summarise from CentOS 8

To uninstall only the sbuildlogs-summarise package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove xbuilder

Extra info and code examples

This package contains scripts to run a batch-job of cross-builds, using various methods, on a list of source packages. It also has a simple cross-bootstraping helper (using build-profiles), and scripts for generating html tables summarising the results of a build run, and generating the packagelists to build. It is not a proper buildd, or smart in any way, just really a collection of scripts wrtten for a particular task. Nevertheless they remain useful for this particular job.

Conclusion

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

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