How To Install darcs on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install darcs on Fedora 36.
What is darcs
Darcs is a distributed, interactive, smart revision control system. Darcs is easy to learn and efficient to use because it asks you questions in response to simple commands, giving you choices in your workflow. You can choose to record one change in a file, while ignoring another. You can review each patch as you update from upstream. Originally developed by physicist David Roundy, darcs is based on a unique algebra of patches.
We can use yum or dnf to install darcs on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install darcs.
Install darcs 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 darcs using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install darcs
Install darcs 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 darcs using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install darcs
How To Uninstall darcs on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the darcs package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove darcs
darcs Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/bin/darcs
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/04
/usr/lib/.build-id/04/c05f3f754d716eb1636d2982ae859ea675241e
/usr/share/bash-completion
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/darcs
/usr/share/doc/darcs
/usr/share/doc/darcs/CHANGELOG
/usr/share/doc/darcs/README.md
/usr/share/doc/darcs/_darcs.zsh
/usr/share/licenses/darcs
/usr/share/licenses/darcs/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/darcs.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install darcs on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).