How To Install patchutils on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install patchutils on CentOS 8.
What is patchutils
This is a collection of programs that can manipulate patch files in a variety of ways, such as interpolating between two pre-patches, combining two incremental patches, fixing line numbers in hand-edited patches, and simply listing the files modified by a patch.
We can use yum or dnf to install patchutils on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install patchutils.
Install patchutils 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 patchutils using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install patchutils
Install patchutils 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 patchutils using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install patchutils
How To Uninstall patchutils on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the patchutils package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove patchutils
patchutils Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/combinediff
/usr/bin/dehtmldiff
/usr/bin/editdiff
/usr/bin/espdiff
/usr/bin/filterdiff
/usr/bin/fixcvsdiff
/usr/bin/flipdiff
/usr/bin/grepdiff
/usr/bin/interdiff
/usr/bin/lsdiff
/usr/bin/recountdiff
/usr/bin/rediff
/usr/bin/splitdiff
/usr/bin/unwrapdiff
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/62
/usr/lib/.build-id/62/dc7f93b4ce4894560acf9d123f3f3d92d15339
/usr/lib/.build-id/66
/usr/lib/.build-id/66/9ea656e2844df22905aeb48b659101436802b1
/usr/lib/.build-id/e6
/usr/lib/.build-id/e6/ce63f5ccd10ab7c103fc474a2d8c0ca980a954
/usr/share/doc/patchutils
/usr/share/doc/patchutils/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/patchutils/BUGS
/usr/share/doc/patchutils/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/patchutils/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/patchutils/README
/usr/share/licenses/patchutils
/usr/share/licenses/patchutils/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/combinediff.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/dehtmldiff.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/editdiff.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/espdiff.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/filterdiff.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/fixcvsdiff.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/flipdiff.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/grepdiff.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/interdiff.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lsdiff.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/recountdiff.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rediff.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/splitdiff.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/unwrapdiff.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install patchutils on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.