How To Install beediff on Fedora 34

beediff is Visual tool for comparing and merging files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install beediff on Fedora 34.

What is `beediff`

This package provides a visual application (beediff) for comparing and merging files. User have a possibility to work with two text files. Every one is in separate panel. Panels are side by side. All differences of both textes are highlighted in colors. Operation buttons (merge, remove) are located direct inside compared textes in appropriate positions. Program is user friendly, very simply and efficient.

We can use yum or dnf to install beediff on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install beediff.

Install beediff on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install beediff using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install beediff

Install beediff on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install beediff using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install beediff

How To Uninstall beediff on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the beediff package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove beediff

beediff Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/beediff
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/8a
/usr/lib/.build-id/8a/1e5a6d483fc448f6b6704e43b71866ae4b58e3
/usr/share/applications/beediff.desktop
/usr/share/doc/beediff
/usr/share/doc/beediff/ChangeLog.txt
/usr/share/doc/beediff/licence.txt
/usr/share/pixmaps/beediff.png

References

beediff website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install beediff on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.