How To Install cvs-doc on CentOS 8

cvs-doc is Additional documentation for Concurrent Versions System

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cvs-doc on CentOS 8.

What is cvs-doc

FAQ, RCS format description, parallel development how-to, and Texinfo pages in PDF.

We can use yum or dnf to install cvs-doc on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cvs-doc.

Install cvs-doc 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-doc using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install cvs-doc

Install cvs-doc 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-doc using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cvs-doc

How To Uninstall cvs-doc on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the cvs-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove cvs-doc

cvs-doc Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/share/doc/cvs-doc
/usr/share/doc/cvs-doc/FAQ
/usr/share/doc/cvs-doc/RCSFILES
/usr/share/doc/cvs-doc/cvs-paper.pdf
/usr/share/doc/cvs-doc/cvs.pdf
/usr/share/doc/cvs-doc/cvsclient.pdf
/usr/share/licenses/cvs-doc
/usr/share/licenses/cvs-doc/COPYING

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cvs-doc on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.