How To Install tofrodos on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tofrodos on CentOS 8.
What is tofrodos
Tofrodos is a text file conversion utility that converts ASCII and Unicode UTF-8 files between the MSDOS (or Windows) format, which traditionally have CR/LF (carriage return/line feed) pairs as their new line delimiters, and the Unix format, which usually have LFs (line feeds) to terminate each line. It is a useful utility to have around when you have to convert files between MSDOS (or Windows) and Unix/Linux/BSD (and her clones and variants). It comes standard with a number of systems and is often found on the system as “todos”, “fromdos”, “dos2unix” and “unix2dos”.
We can use yum or dnf to install tofrodos on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install tofrodos.
Install tofrodos 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 tofrodos using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install tofrodos
Install tofrodos 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 tofrodos using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install tofrodos
How To Uninstall tofrodos on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the tofrodos package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove tofrodos
tofrodos Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/fromdos
/usr/bin/todos
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/8d
/usr/lib/.build-id/8d/71e3a7dc9fec91e993b77b4ee3192ae8b1a00d
/usr/share/doc/tofrodos
/usr/share/doc/tofrodos/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/tofrodos/readme.txt
/usr/share/doc/tofrodos/tofrodos.html
/usr/share/man/man1/fromdos.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/todos.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tofrodos on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.