How To Install rpmconf on Fedora 34

rpmconf is Tool to handle rpmnew and rpmsave files

Introduction

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

What is `rpmconf`

This tool search for .rpmnew, .rpmsave and .rpmorig files and ask you what to do with them Keep current version, place back old version, watch the diff or merge.

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

Install rpmconf 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 rpmconf using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install rpmconf

Install rpmconf 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 rpmconf using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install rpmconf

How To Uninstall rpmconf on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove rpmconf

rpmconf Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/sbin/rpmconf
/usr/share/doc/rpmconf
/usr/share/doc/rpmconf/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/rpmconf
/usr/share/licenses/rpmconf/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man8/rpmconf.8.gz

References

rpmconf website

Summary

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