How To Install cvs-contrib.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install cvs-contrib.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. cvs-contrib.noarch is Unsupported contributions collected by CVS developers

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cvs-contrib.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `cvs-contrib.noarch`

Scripts sent to CVS developers by contributors around the world. These contributions are really unsupported.

We can use yum to install cvs-contrib.noarch on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cvs-contrib.noarch.

Install cvs-contrib.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install cvs-contrib.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cvs-contrib.noarch

How To Uninstall cvs-contrib.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the cvs-contrib.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove cvs-contrib.noarch

cvs-contrib.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/rcs2log
/usr/share/cvs
/usr/share/cvs/contrib
/usr/share/cvs/contrib/README
/usr/share/cvs/contrib/check_cvs
/usr/share/cvs/contrib/clmerge
/usr/share/cvs/contrib/cln_hist
/usr/share/cvs/contrib/commit_prep
/usr/share/cvs/contrib/cvs2vendor
/usr/share/cvs/contrib/cvs_acls
/usr/share/cvs/contrib/cvscheck
/usr/share/cvs/contrib/debug_check_log
/usr/share/cvs/contrib/intro.doc
/usr/share/cvs/contrib/log
/usr/share/cvs/contrib/log_accum
/usr/share/cvs/contrib/mfpipe
/usr/share/cvs/contrib/pvcs2rcs
/usr/share/cvs/contrib/rcs-to-cvs
/usr/share/cvs/contrib/rcs2log
/usr/share/cvs/contrib/rcslock
/usr/share/cvs/contrib/sccs2rcs

References

cvs-contrib.noarch website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cvs-contrib.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.