How To Install qgit on Fedora 34

qgit is GUI browser for git repositories

Introduction

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

What is qgit

With qgit you are able to browse revisions history, view patch content and changed files, graphically following different development branches.

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

Install qgit 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 qgit using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install qgit

Install qgit 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 qgit using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install qgit

How To Uninstall qgit on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove qgit

qgit Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/qgit
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f6
/usr/lib/.build-id/f6/7148fb88dbc01e44f0f62f4ffa2e60e6952614
/usr/share/appdata/qgit.appdata.xml
/usr/share/applications/qgit.desktop
/usr/share/doc/qgit
/usr/share/doc/qgit/README.adoc
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/qgit.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/qgit.png

References

Summary

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