How To Install cpdup on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cpdup on Fedora 34.
What is cpdup
The cpdup utility makes an exact mirror copy of the source in the destination, creating and deleting files and directories as necessary. UTimes, hardlinks, softlinks, devices, permissions, and flags are mirrored. By default, cpdup asks for confirmation if any file or directory needs to be removed from the destination and does not copy files which it believes to have already been synchronized (by observing that the source and destination file’s size and mtimes match). cpdup does not cross mount points in either the source or the destination. As a safety measure, cpdup refuses to replace a destination directory with a file.
We can use yum or dnf to install cpdup on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cpdup.
Install cpdup 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 cpdup using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install cpdup
Install cpdup 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 cpdup using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install cpdup
How To Uninstall cpdup on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the cpdup package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove cpdup
cpdup Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/cpdup
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/33
/usr/lib/.build-id/33/874711145a0b285004fa6e639983933f2416b3
/usr/share/doc/cpdup
/usr/share/doc/cpdup/BACKUPS
/usr/share/doc/cpdup/PORTING
/usr/share/doc/cpdup/scripts
/usr/share/doc/cpdup/scripts/crontab
/usr/share/doc/cpdup/scripts/do_cleanup
/usr/share/doc/cpdup/scripts/do_mirror
/usr/share/doc/cpdup/scripts/do_mirror_host
/usr/share/doc/cpdup/scripts/do_remote
/usr/share/doc/cpdup/scripts/do_remote_host
/usr/share/doc/cpdup/scripts/params
/usr/share/man/man1/cpdup.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cpdup on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.