How To Install wiggle on Fedora 34

wiggle is A tool for applying patches with conflicts

Introduction

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

What is `wiggle`

Wiggle is a program for applying patches that ‘patch’ cannot apply due to conflicting changes in the original. Wiggle will always apply all changes in the patch to the original. If it cannot find a way to cleanly apply a patch, it inserts it in the original in a manner similar to ‘merge’, and reports an unresolvable conflict.

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

Install wiggle 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 wiggle using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install wiggle

Install wiggle 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 wiggle using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install wiggle

How To Uninstall wiggle on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove wiggle

wiggle Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/wiggle
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/cc
/usr/lib/.build-id/cc/023680d4f5937be40f54482ee9501b16473ea3
/usr/share/doc/wiggle
/usr/share/doc/wiggle/ANNOUNCE
/usr/share/doc/wiggle/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/wiggle
/usr/share/licenses/wiggle/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/wiggle.1.gz

References

wiggle website

Summary

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