How To Install gitweb on Fedora 34

gitweb is Simple web interface to git repositories

Introduction

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

What is gitweb

Simple web interface to git repositories.

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

Install gitweb 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 gitweb using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gitweb

Install gitweb 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 gitweb using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gitweb

How To Uninstall gitweb on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove gitweb

gitweb Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/gitweb.conf
/etc/httpd/conf.d/gitweb.conf
/usr/share/doc/git/INSTALL.gitweb
/usr/share/doc/git/README.gitweb
/usr/share/doc/git/gitweb.conf.html
/usr/share/doc/git/gitweb.conf.txt
/usr/share/doc/git/gitweb.html
/usr/share/doc/git/gitweb.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/gitweb.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/gitweb.conf.5.gz
/var/www/git
/var/www/git/gitweb.cgi
/var/www/git/static
/var/www/git/static/git-favicon.png
/var/www/git/static/git-logo.png
/var/www/git/static/gitweb.css
/var/www/git/static/gitweb.js

References

Summary

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