How To Install jdupes on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install jdupes
on Fedora 36.
What is jdupes
jdupes is a program for identifying and taking actions upon duplicate files. A WORD OF WARNING fdupes! Do not blindly replace fdupes with jdupes in scripts and expect everything to work the same way. Option availability and meanings differ between the two programs. For example, the -I switch in jdupes means “isolate” and blocks intra-argument matching, while in fdupes it means “immediately delete files during scanning without prompting the user.”
We can use yum
or dnf
to install jdupes
on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install jdupes.
Install jdupes 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 jdupes
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install jdupes
Install jdupes 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 jdupes
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install jdupes
How To Uninstall jdupes on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the jdupes
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove jdupes
jdupes Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/bin/jdupes
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a8
/usr/lib/.build-id/a8/0c1848f30b5478df1a78cf68ae54b0f0a07e1f
/usr/share/doc/jdupes
/usr/share/doc/jdupes/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/jdupes/INSTALL
/usr/share/doc/jdupes/README.md
/usr/share/doc/jdupes/README.stupid_dupes
/usr/share/licenses/jdupes
/usr/share/licenses/jdupes/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/jdupes.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install jdupes
on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).