How To Install darcs on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install darcs
on Fedora 34.
What is darcs
Darcs is a distributed, interactive, smart revision control system. Darcs is easy to learn and efficient to use because it asks you questions in response to simple commands, giving you choices in your workflow. You can choose to record one change in a file, while ignoring another. You can review each patch as you update from upstream. Originally developed by physicist David Roundy, darcs is based on a unique algebra of patches.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install darcs
on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install darcs.
Install darcs 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 darcs
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install darcs
Install darcs 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 darcs
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install darcs
How To Uninstall darcs on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the darcs
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove darcs
darcs Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/darcs
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/e0
/usr/lib/.build-id/e0/c7f4199e30a9d77048dae80968b0acd32ef283
/usr/share/bash-completion
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/darcs
/usr/share/doc/darcs
/usr/share/doc/darcs/CHANGELOG
/usr/share/doc/darcs/README.md
/usr/share/doc/darcs/_darcs.zsh
/usr/share/licenses/darcs
/usr/share/licenses/darcs/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/darcs.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install darcs
on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.