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Packit CLI

Installation​

There are various ways how to install packit CLI. Pick what suits you the best:

Fedora Linux​

$ sudo dnf install packit

Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS Stream 9​

On RHEL/CentOS Stream 9 you can install RPM from EPEL repository.

$ sudo dnf install epel-release
$ sudo dnf install packit

From Fedora Copr​

You can also help us test the latest development snapshot by installing packit built from the main branch in Copr:

$ sudo dnf copr enable packit/packit-dev
$ sudo dnf install packit
$ # OR in case you have packit already installed from the Fedora repositories:
$ sudo dnf upgrade packit
tip

We have multiple Copr repositories:

  • packit-releases — contains latest releases, even before they get pushed to stable as updates by Bodhi
  • packit-dev — contains latest Packit (from the main branch)
  • packit-stable — contains Packit that runs on our production

From PyPI​

When you install packit with pip, some of the dependencies need to be compiled from sources, for example on Fedora you first need to install a few devel packages:

$ sudo dnf install gcc python3-devel libcurl-devel krb5-devel openssl-devel

Packit on PyPI is available as packitos project (packit at PyPI is something different).

$ pip install --user packitos

From Source​

... or installing it directly from GitHub:

$ pip install --user git+https://github.com/packit/packit

You will need to install some devel packages first, see above section.

In a container​

If none of the above work for you, try running it in a container from our Fedora based image. It contains packit installed from main branch, i.e. the same you'd get by pip installing from GitHub.

$ podman run -ti --rm -v $PWD:/src:z quay.io/packit/packit bash
$ packit
Usage: packit [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

Depending on the command you want to perform you need to mount secrets and configuration files, like in the following examples:

Copr build​

$ podman run -ti --rm -v ~/.config/copr:/root/.config/copr:z -v $PWD:/src:z quay.io/packit/packit bash
$ packit build in-copr

Koji build​

$ podman run -ti --rm -v ~/.ssh/:/root/.ssh:z -v $PWD:/src:z quay.io/packit/packit bash
$ fkinit -u <Fedora Account username>
$ packit build in-koji

Commands​