How To Install tofrodos on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tofrodos
on Rocky Linux 8.
What is tofrodos
Tofrodos is a text file conversion utility that converts ASCII and Unicode UTF-8 files between the MSDOS (or Windows) format, which traditionally have CR/LF (carriage return/line feed) pairs as their new line delimiters, and the Unix format, which usually have LFs (line feeds) to terminate each line. It is a useful utility to have around when you have to convert files between MSDOS (or Windows) and Unix/Linux/BSD (and her clones and variants). It comes standard with a number of systems and is often found on the system as “todos”, “fromdos”, “dos2unix” and “unix2dos”.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install tofrodos
on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install tofrodos.
Install tofrodos 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 tofrodos
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install tofrodos
Install tofrodos 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 tofrodos
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install tofrodos
How To Uninstall tofrodos on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the tofrodos
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove tofrodos
tofrodos Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/bin/fromdos
/usr/bin/todos
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/8d
/usr/lib/.build-id/8d/71e3a7dc9fec91e993b77b4ee3192ae8b1a00d
/usr/share/doc/tofrodos
/usr/share/doc/tofrodos/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/tofrodos/readme.txt
/usr/share/doc/tofrodos/tofrodos.html
/usr/share/man/man1/fromdos.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/todos.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tofrodos
on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.