How To Install bsdiff on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install bsdiff in Fedora 36. bsdiff is Binary diff/patch utility

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bsdiff on Fedora 36.

What is bsdiff

bsdiff and bspatch are tools for building and applying patches to binary files. By using suffix sorting (specifically, Larsson and Sadakane’s qsufsort) and taking advantage of how executable files change, bsdiff routinely produces binary patches 50-80% smaller than those produced by Xdelta, and 15% smaller than those produced by .RTPatch.

We can use yum or dnf to install bsdiff on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install bsdiff.

Install bsdiff on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install bsdiff using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install bsdiff

Install bsdiff on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install bsdiff using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install bsdiff

How To Uninstall bsdiff on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove bsdiff

bsdiff Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/bsdiff
/usr/bin/bspatch
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/47
/usr/lib/.build-id/47/ecfb4b3d8611435564e3d21f4d641f0ba2decc
/usr/lib/.build-id/ff
/usr/lib/.build-id/ff/c5ec7dd7fbf49371e89aae016fc5d58a5158a1
/usr/share/man/man1/bsdiff.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/bspatch.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install bsdiff on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).