How To Install rfcdiff on Fedora 34

rfcdiff is Compares two internet draft files and outputs the difference

Introduction

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

What is `rfcdiff`

The purpose of this program is to compare two versions of an internet-draft, and as output produce a diff in one of several formats - side-by-side html diff - paged wdiff output in a text terminal - a text file with changebars in the left margin - a simple unified diff output In all cases, internet-draft headers and footers are stripped before generating the diff, to produce a cleaner diff.

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

Install rfcdiff 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 rfcdiff using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install rfcdiff

Install rfcdiff 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 rfcdiff using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install rfcdiff

How To Uninstall rfcdiff on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove rfcdiff

rfcdiff Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/rfcdiff
/usr/share/doc/rfcdiff
/usr/share/doc/rfcdiff/changelog
/usr/share/doc/rfcdiff/copyright
/usr/share/doc/rfcdiff/todo
/usr/share/man/man1/rfcdiff.1.gz

References

rfcdiff website

Summary

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