How To Install clide on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install clide on Rocky Linux 8. clide is Color and style highlighting program for text

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install clide on Rocky Linux 8.

What is clide

clide is a program that will colorize ASCII text on the command line using ANSI escape sequences and user defined and predefined expressions. Searches can include Perl Compatible Regular Expressions.

We can use yum or dnf to install clide on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install clide.

Install clide on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install clide

Install clide on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install clide

How To Uninstall clide on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove clide

clide Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/clide
/usr/share/doc/clide
/usr/share/doc/clide/CHANGELOG
/usr/share/doc/clide/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/clide/GOALS
/usr/share/doc/clide/IDEAS
/usr/share/doc/clide/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/clide/README.md
/usr/share/doc/clide/WARNING
/usr/share/man/man1/clide.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install clide on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.