How To Install colordiff on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install colordiff
on Rocky Linux 8.
What is colordiff
Colordiff is a wrapper for diff and produces the same output but with pretty syntax highlighting. Color schemes can be customized.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install colordiff
on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install colordiff.
Install colordiff on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install colordiff
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install colordiff
Install colordiff on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install colordiff
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install colordiff
How To Uninstall colordiff on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the colordiff
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove colordiff
colordiff Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/etc/colordiffrc
/usr/bin/cdiff
/usr/bin/colordiff
/usr/share/doc/colordiff
/usr/share/doc/colordiff/BUGS
/usr/share/doc/colordiff/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/colordiff/README
/usr/share/doc/colordiff/colordiffrc
/usr/share/doc/colordiff/colordiffrc-gitdiff
/usr/share/doc/colordiff/colordiffrc-lightbg
/usr/share/licenses/colordiff
/usr/share/licenses/colordiff/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/cdiff.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/colordiff.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install colordiff
on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.