How To Install fswatch on Rocky Linux 8

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fswatch on Rocky Linux 8.

What is fswatch

fswatch is a cross-platform file change monitor.

We can use yum or dnf to install fswatch on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fswatch.

Install fswatch 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 fswatch using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fswatch

Install fswatch 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 fswatch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fswatch

How To Uninstall fswatch on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove fswatch

fswatch Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/fswatch
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/32
/usr/lib/.build-id/32/064090013aaf6b6cc262042b5e6699b148f058
/usr/lib/.build-id/67
/usr/lib/.build-id/67/2c982d78a6f52df91670fd318755f39ea722d1
/usr/lib64/libfswatch.so.11
/usr/lib64/libfswatch.so.11.0.1
/usr/share/doc/fswatch
/usr/share/doc/fswatch/ABOUT-NLS
/usr/share/doc/fswatch/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/fswatch/CONTRIBUTING.md
/usr/share/doc/fswatch/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/fswatch/README.linux
/usr/share/doc/fswatch/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/fswatch
/usr/share/licenses/fswatch/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/en@boldquot/LC_MESSAGES/fswatch.mo
/usr/share/locale/en@quot/LC_MESSAGES/fswatch.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/fswatch.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/fswatch.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/fswatch.1.gz

References

• fswatch website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fswatch on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.