How To Install cvs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install cvs.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. cvs.x86_64 is Concurrent Versions System

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cvs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `cvs.x86_64`

CVS (Concurrent Versions System) is a version control system that can record the history of your files (usually, but not always, source code). CVS only stores the differences between versions, instead of every version of every file you have ever created. CVS also keeps a log of who, when, and why changes occurred. CVS is very helpful for managing releases and controlling the concurrent editing of source files among multiple authors. Instead of providing version control for a collection of files in a single directory, CVS provides version control for a hierarchical collection of directories consisting of revision controlled files. These directories and files can then be combined together to form a software release.

We can use yum to install cvs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cvs.x86_64.

Install cvs.x86_64 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.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cvs.x86_64

How To Uninstall cvs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the cvs.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove cvs.x86_64

cvs.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/pam.d/cvs
/etc/profile.d/cvs.csh
/etc/profile.d/cvs.sh
/usr/bin/cvs
/usr/bin/cvsbug
/usr/lib/systemd/system/cvs.socket
/usr/lib/systemd/system/cvs.target
/usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]
/usr/share/doc/cvs-1.11.23
/usr/share/doc/cvs-1.11.23/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/cvs-1.11.23/BUGS
/usr/share/doc/cvs-1.11.23/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/cvs-1.11.23/COPYING.LIB
/usr/share/doc/cvs-1.11.23/DEVEL-CVS
/usr/share/doc/cvs-1.11.23/HACKING
/usr/share/doc/cvs-1.11.23/MINOR-BUGS
/usr/share/doc/cvs-1.11.23/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/cvs-1.11.23/PROJECTS
/usr/share/doc/cvs-1.11.23/README
/usr/share/doc/cvs-1.11.23/TODO
/usr/share/info/cvs.info-1.gz
/usr/share/info/cvs.info-2.gz
/usr/share/info/cvs.info.gz
/usr/share/info/cvsclient.info.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/cvs.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/cvs.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/cvs.csh.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/cvs.sh.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/cvsbug.8.gz
/var/cvs

References

cvs.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cvs.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.