How To Install tig on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tig on CentOS 8.
What is tig
Tig is a repository browser for the git revision control system that additionally can act as a pager for output from various git commands. When browsing repositories, it uses the underlying git commands to present the user with various views, such as summarized revision log and showing the commit with the log message, diffstat, and the diff. Using it as a pager, it will display input from stdin and colorize it.
We can use yum or dnf to install tig on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install tig.
Install tig 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 tig using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install tig
Install tig 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 tig using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install tig
How To Uninstall tig on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the tig package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove tig
tig Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/tigrc
/usr/bin/tig
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/45
/usr/lib/.build-id/45/b7a23dfda8a82232d1dc51ac9e0179af9a13d3
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/tig
/usr/share/doc/tig
/usr/share/doc/tig/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/tig/INSTALL.html
/usr/share/doc/tig/NEWS.adoc
/usr/share/doc/tig/NEWS.html
/usr/share/doc/tig/README.adoc
/usr/share/doc/tig/README.html
/usr/share/doc/tig/manual.html
/usr/share/doc/tig/tig.1.html
/usr/share/doc/tig/tigrc.5.html
/usr/share/licenses/tig
/usr/share/licenses/tig/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/tig.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/tigrc.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/tigmanual.7.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tig on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.