How To Install hexedit on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install hexedit on CentOS 8.
What is hexedit
Hexedit shows a file both in ASCII and in hexadecimal. The file can be a device as the file is read a piece at a time. Hexedit can be used to modify the file and search through it.
We can use yum or dnf to install hexedit on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install hexedit.
Install hexedit 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 hexedit using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install hexedit
Install hexedit 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 hexedit using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install hexedit
How To Uninstall hexedit on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the hexedit package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove hexedit
hexedit Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/hexedit
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/89
/usr/lib/.build-id/89/10f59bf320d2ae4a31235d79fad2cee576ec58
/usr/share/doc/hexedit
/usr/share/doc/hexedit/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/hexedit/Changes
/usr/share/doc/hexedit/hexedit-1.2.13.lsm
/usr/share/man/man1/hexedit.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install hexedit on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.