How To Install autojump on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install autojump on CentOS 8.
What is autojump
autojump is a faster way to navigate your filesystem. It works by maintaining a database of the directories you use the most from the command line.
We can use yum or dnf to install autojump on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install autojump.
Install autojump on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install autojump using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install autojump
Install autojump on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install autojump using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install autojump
How To Uninstall autojump on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the autojump package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove autojump
autojump Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/profile.d/autojump.sh
/usr/bin/autojump
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/__pycache__/autojump_data.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/__pycache__/autojump_data.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/__pycache__/autojump_match.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/__pycache__/autojump_match.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/__pycache__/autojump_utils.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/__pycache__/autojump_utils.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/autojump_data.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/autojump_match.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/autojump_utils.py
/usr/share/autojump
/usr/share/autojump/autojump.bash
/usr/share/autojump/icon.png
/usr/share/doc/autojump
/usr/share/doc/autojump/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/autojump/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/autojump
/usr/share/licenses/autojump/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/autojump.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install autojump on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
