How To Install duff on Fedora 34

duff is Quickly find duplicate files

Introduction

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

What is duff

Duff is a command-line utility for quickly finding duplicates in a given set of files

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

Install duff 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 duff using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install duff

Install duff 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 duff using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install duff

How To Uninstall duff on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove duff

duff Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/duff
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b8
/usr/lib/.build-id/b8/11216e4d7f6ef4770bc8cf7c8572a8b8df57d8
/usr/share/doc/duff
/usr/share/doc/duff/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/duff/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/duff/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/duff/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/duff/README
/usr/share/doc/duff/TODO
/usr/share/duff
/usr/share/duff/join-duplicates.sh
/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/duff.mo
/usr/share/locale/en@boldquot/LC_MESSAGES/duff.mo
/usr/share/locale/en@quot/LC_MESSAGES/duff.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/duff.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/duff.1.gz

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Summary

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