How To Install bsdiff on Fedora 34

bsdiff is Binary diff/patch utility

Introduction

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

What is `bsdiff`

bsdiff and bspatch are tools for building and applying patches to binary files. By using suffix sorting (specifically, Larsson and Sadakane’s qsufsort) and taking advantage of how executable files change, bsdiff routinely produces binary patches 50-80% smaller than those produced by Xdelta, and 15% smaller than those produced by .RTPatch.

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

Install bsdiff 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 bsdiff using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install bsdiff

Install bsdiff 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 bsdiff using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install bsdiff

How To Uninstall bsdiff on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove bsdiff

bsdiff Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/bsdiff
/usr/bin/bspatch
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/61
/usr/lib/.build-id/61/8b9fed5085553e0a79326d622aa58ede64bc1b
/usr/lib/.build-id/e4
/usr/lib/.build-id/e4/104005964ba03bc3511c1c9b6844eac0de9df1
/usr/share/man/man1/bsdiff.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/bspatch.1.gz

References

bsdiff website

Summary

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