How To Install gitk on Rocky Linux 8

Introduction

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

What is gitk

Git repository browser.

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

Install gitk 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 gitk using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gitk

Install gitk 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 gitk using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gitk

How To Uninstall gitk on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove gitk

gitk Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/gitk
/usr/share/doc/git/gitk.html
/usr/share/doc/git/gitk.txt
/usr/share/gitk
/usr/share/gitk/lib
/usr/share/gitk/lib/msgs
/usr/share/gitk/lib/msgs/bg.msg
/usr/share/gitk/lib/msgs/ca.msg
/usr/share/gitk/lib/msgs/de.msg
/usr/share/gitk/lib/msgs/es.msg
/usr/share/gitk/lib/msgs/fr.msg
/usr/share/gitk/lib/msgs/hu.msg
/usr/share/gitk/lib/msgs/it.msg
/usr/share/gitk/lib/msgs/ja.msg
/usr/share/gitk/lib/msgs/pt_br.msg
/usr/share/gitk/lib/msgs/pt_pt.msg
/usr/share/gitk/lib/msgs/ru.msg
/usr/share/gitk/lib/msgs/sv.msg
/usr/share/gitk/lib/msgs/vi.msg
/usr/share/gitk/lib/msgs/zh_cn.msg
/usr/share/man/man1/gitk.1.gz

References

• gitk website

Summary

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