How To Install rpmdevtools.noarch on Amazon Linux 2
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rpmdevtools.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.
What is rpmdevtools.noarch
This package contains scripts and (X)Emacs support files to aid in development of RPM packages. rpmdev-setuptree Create RPM build tree within user’s home directory rpmdev-diff Diff contents of two archives rpmdev-newspec Creates new .spec from template rpmdev-rmdevelrpms Find (and optionally remove) “development” RPMs rpmdev-checksig Check package signatures using alternate RPM keyring rpminfo Print information about executables and libraries rpmdev-md5/sha* Display checksums of all files in an archive file rpmdev-vercmp RPM version comparison checker spectool Expand and download sources and patches in specfiles rpmdev-wipetree Erase all files within dirs created by rpmdev-setuptree rpmdev-extract Extract various archives, “tar xvf” style rpmdev-bumpspec Bump revision in specfile …and many more.
We can use yum to install rpmdevtools.noarch on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rpmdevtools.noarch.
Install rpmdevtools.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install rpmdevtools.noarch using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install rpmdevtools.noarch
How To Uninstall rpmdevtools.noarch on Amazon Linux 2
To uninstall only the rpmdevtools.noarch package we can use the following command:
sudo yum remove rpmdevtools.noarch
rpmdevtools.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2
/etc/bash_completion.d
/etc/bash_completion.d/rpmdevtools.bash-completion
/etc/rpmdevtools
/etc/rpmdevtools/devscripts.conf
/etc/rpmdevtools/newspec.conf
/etc/rpmdevtools/rmdevelrpms.conf
/etc/rpmdevtools/spectemplate-R.spec
/etc/rpmdevtools/spectemplate-dummy.spec
/etc/rpmdevtools/spectemplate-lib.spec
/etc/rpmdevtools/spectemplate-minimal.spec
/etc/rpmdevtools/spectemplate-ocaml.spec
/etc/rpmdevtools/spectemplate-perl.spec
/etc/rpmdevtools/spectemplate-php-pear.spec
/etc/rpmdevtools/spectemplate-python.spec
/etc/rpmdevtools/spectemplate-ruby.spec
/etc/rpmdevtools/template.init
/usr/bin/annotate-output
/usr/bin/checkbashisms
/usr/bin/licensecheck
/usr/bin/manpage-alert
/usr/bin/rpmdev-bumpspec
/usr/bin/rpmdev-checksig
/usr/bin/rpmdev-cksum
/usr/bin/rpmdev-diff
/usr/bin/rpmdev-extract
/usr/bin/rpmdev-md5
/usr/bin/rpmdev-newinit
/usr/bin/rpmdev-newspec
/usr/bin/rpmdev-packager
/usr/bin/rpmdev-rmdevelrpms
/usr/bin/rpmdev-setuptree
/usr/bin/rpmdev-sha1
/usr/bin/rpmdev-sha224
/usr/bin/rpmdev-sha256
/usr/bin/rpmdev-sha384
/usr/bin/rpmdev-sha512
/usr/bin/rpmdev-sort
/usr/bin/rpmdev-sum
/usr/bin/rpmdev-vercmp
/usr/bin/rpmdev-wipetree
/usr/bin/rpminfo
/usr/bin/rpmls
/usr/bin/spectool
/usr/share/doc/rpmdevtools-8.3
/usr/share/doc/rpmdevtools-8.3/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/rpmdevtools-8.3/NEWS
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/rpmdev-init.el
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/rpmdev-init.elc
/usr/share/man/man1/annotate-output.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/checkbashisms.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/licensecheck.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/manpage-alert.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rpmdev-bumpspec.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rpmdev-diff.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rpmdev-extract.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rpmdev-newinit.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rpmdev-newspec.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rpmdev-packager.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/spectool.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/rpmdev-rmdevelrpms.8.gz
/usr/share/rpmdevtools
/usr/share/rpmdevtools/rpmdev-init.el
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rpmdevtools.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.