How To Install jdupes on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install jdupes in Fedora 36. jdupes is Duplicate file finder and an enhanced fork of ‘fdupes’

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/).