How To Install patchutils on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install patchutils on Rocky Linux 8.
What is patchutils
This is a collection of programs that can manipulate patch files in a variety of ways, such as interpolating between two pre-patches, combining two incremental patches, fixing line numbers in hand-edited patches, and simply listing the files modified by a patch.
We can use yum or dnf to install patchutils on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install patchutils.
Install patchutils 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 patchutils using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install patchutils
Install patchutils 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 patchutils using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install patchutils
How To Uninstall patchutils on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the patchutils package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove patchutils
patchutils Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/bin/combinediff
/usr/bin/dehtmldiff
/usr/bin/editdiff
/usr/bin/espdiff
/usr/bin/filterdiff
/usr/bin/fixcvsdiff
/usr/bin/flipdiff
/usr/bin/grepdiff
/usr/bin/interdiff
/usr/bin/lsdiff
/usr/bin/recountdiff
/usr/bin/rediff
/usr/bin/splitdiff
/usr/bin/unwrapdiff
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1b
/usr/lib/.build-id/1b/27ce8456f9f5eab08258a76b1b22015feae1e9
/usr/lib/.build-id/2b
/usr/lib/.build-id/2b/e595d87332f4bcee487b33b50b36af537ce70f
/usr/lib/.build-id/5c
/usr/lib/.build-id/5c/6d46db35a4e1aff5fbb5d23427be565bf7e759
/usr/share/doc/patchutils
/usr/share/doc/patchutils/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/patchutils/BUGS
/usr/share/doc/patchutils/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/patchutils/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/patchutils/README
/usr/share/licenses/patchutils
/usr/share/licenses/patchutils/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/combinediff.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/dehtmldiff.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/editdiff.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/espdiff.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/filterdiff.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/fixcvsdiff.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/flipdiff.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/grepdiff.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/interdiff.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lsdiff.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/recountdiff.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rediff.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/splitdiff.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/unwrapdiff.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install patchutils on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.
