How To Install darcs on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install darcs in Fedora 36. darcs is A distributed, interactive, smart revision control system

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/).