How To Install tig on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tig on Fedora 34.
What is tig
Tig is a repository browser for the git revision control system that additionally can act as a pager for output from various git commands. When browsing repositories, it uses the underlying git commands to present the user with various views, such as summarized revision log and showing the commit with the log message, diffstat, and the diff. Using it as a pager, it will display input from stdin and colorize it.
We can use yum or dnf to install tig on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install tig.
Install tig 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 tig using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install tig
Install tig 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 tig using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install tig
How To Uninstall tig on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the tig package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove tig
tig Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/tigrc
/usr/bin/tig
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/19
/usr/lib/.build-id/19/4da7df3de1dc366e179faa035c19c3479d77c0
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/tig
/usr/share/doc/tig
/usr/share/doc/tig/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/tig/INSTALL.html
/usr/share/doc/tig/NEWS.adoc
/usr/share/doc/tig/NEWS.html
/usr/share/doc/tig/README.adoc
/usr/share/doc/tig/README.html
/usr/share/licenses/tig
/usr/share/licenses/tig/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/tig.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/tigrc.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/tigmanual.7.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tig on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
