How To Install fdupes on Fedora 34

fdupes is Finds duplicate files in a given set of directories

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fdupes on Fedora 34.

What is fdupes

FDUPES is a program for identifying duplicate files residing within specified directories.

We can use yum or dnf to install fdupes on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fdupes.

Install fdupes on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install fdupes using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fdupes

Install fdupes on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install fdupes using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fdupes

How To Uninstall fdupes on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the fdupes package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove fdupes

fdupes Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/fdupes
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/dd
/usr/lib/.build-id/dd/52353080c40a344b94a1502511f23451254da0
/usr/lib/rpm/macros.d/macros.fdupes
/usr/share/doc/fdupes
/usr/share/doc/fdupes/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/fdupes/README
/usr/share/licenses/fdupes
/usr/share/licenses/fdupes/CONTRIBUTORS
/usr/share/licenses/fdupes/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/fdupes.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/fdupes-help.7.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fdupes on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.