How To Install gitk on CentOS 7

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gitk on CentOS 7.

What is gitk

Git revision tree visualiser.

We can use yum or dnf to install gitk on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gitk.

Install gitk on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install gitk using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gitk

Install gitk on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install dnf first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install gitk using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gitk

How To Uninstall gitk on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove gitk

gitk Package Contents on CentOS 7

/usr/bin/gitk
/usr/share/doc/gitk-1.8.3.1
/usr/share/doc/gitk-1.8.3.1/gitk.html
/usr/share/doc/gitk-1.8.3.1/gitk.txt
/usr/share/gitk
/usr/share/gitk/lib
/usr/share/gitk/lib/msgs
/usr/share/gitk/lib/msgs/de.msg
/usr/share/gitk/lib/msgs/es.msg
/usr/share/gitk/lib/msgs/fr.msg
/usr/share/gitk/lib/msgs/hu.msg
/usr/share/gitk/lib/msgs/it.msg
/usr/share/gitk/lib/msgs/ja.msg
/usr/share/gitk/lib/msgs/pt_br.msg
/usr/share/gitk/lib/msgs/ru.msg
/usr/share/gitk/lib/msgs/sv.msg
/usr/share/man/man1/gitk.1.gz

References

• gitk website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gitk on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.