How To Install hxtools on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install hxtools on CentOS 8.
What is hxtools
hxtools contains several tools for different tasks written by Jan Engelhardt. Currently only these tools are included in Fedora * fd0ssh - Pipe for password-over-stdin support to ssh * git-forest - A text-based git tree visualizer * ofl - Open file lister (replaces fuser and lsof -m) * peicon - PE files icons extractor
We can use yum or dnf to install hxtools on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install hxtools.
Install hxtools 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 hxtools using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install hxtools
Install hxtools 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 hxtools using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install hxtools
How To Uninstall hxtools on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the hxtools package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove hxtools
hxtools Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/git-forest
/usr/bin/ofl
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/14
/usr/lib/.build-id/14/740ccba307c0d075868b31479f28591acadea8
/usr/lib/.build-id/cc
/usr/lib/.build-id/cc/9443a13bfd14f0ce5d6c42ee6dfcff4d5d9e3f
/usr/lib/.build-id/e4
/usr/lib/.build-id/e4/beea44d57915b6138c4ba82dfd7e20f3104de2
/usr/libexec/hxtools/fd0ssh
/usr/libexec/hxtools/peicon
/usr/share/doc/hxtools
/usr/share/doc/hxtools/LICENSES.txt
/usr/share/licenses/hxtools
/usr/share/licenses/hxtools/LICENSE.GPL2
/usr/share/licenses/hxtools/LICENSE.GPL3
/usr/share/licenses/hxtools/LICENSE.WTFPL
/usr/share/man/man1/fd0ssh.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/git-forest.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ofl.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/peicon.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install hxtools on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.