How To Install cvs-contrib on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cvs-contrib on CentOS 8.
What is cvs-contrib
Scripts sent to CVS developers by contributors around the world. These contributions are really unsupported.
We can use yum or dnf to install cvs-contrib on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cvs-contrib.
Install cvs-contrib on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install cvs-contrib using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install cvs-contrib
Install cvs-contrib on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install cvs-contrib using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install cvs-contrib
How To Uninstall cvs-contrib on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the cvs-contrib package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove cvs-contrib
cvs-contrib Package Contents on CentOS 8
/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
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cvs-contrib on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.