How To Install tig on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install tig on Rocky Linux 8. tig is Text-mode interface for the git revision control system

Introduction

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

What is tig

Tig is a repository browser for the git revision control system that additionally can act as a pager for output from various git commands. When browsing repositories, it uses the underlying git commands to present the user with various views, such as summarized revision log and showing the commit with the log message, diffstat, and the diff. Using it as a pager, it will display input from stdin and colorize it.

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

Install tig 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 tig using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install tig

Install tig 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 tig using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install tig

How To Uninstall tig on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove tig

tig Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/tigrc
/usr/bin/tig
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/45
/usr/lib/.build-id/45/b7a23dfda8a82232d1dc51ac9e0179af9a13d3
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/tig
/usr/share/doc/tig
/usr/share/doc/tig/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/tig/INSTALL.html
/usr/share/doc/tig/NEWS.adoc
/usr/share/doc/tig/NEWS.html
/usr/share/doc/tig/README.adoc
/usr/share/doc/tig/README.html
/usr/share/doc/tig/manual.html
/usr/share/doc/tig/tig.1.html
/usr/share/doc/tig/tigrc.5.html
/usr/share/licenses/tig
/usr/share/licenses/tig/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/tig.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/tigrc.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/tigmanual.7.gz

References

Summary

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