How To Install ydiff on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ydiff on Fedora 34.
What is ydiff
Term based tool to view colored, incremental diff in a Git/Mercurial/Svn workspace or from stdin, with side by side (similar to diff -y) and auto pager support.
We can use yum or dnf to install ydiff on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ydiff.
Install ydiff 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 ydiff using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ydiff
Install ydiff 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 ydiff using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install ydiff
How To Uninstall ydiff on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the ydiff package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ydiff
ydiff Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/ydiff
/usr/share/doc/ydiff
/usr/share/doc/ydiff/README.rst
/usr/share/licenses/ydiff
/usr/share/licenses/ydiff/LICENSE
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ydiff on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.