How To Install clitest on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install clitest on Rocky Linux 8. clitest is Command Line Tester

Introduction

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

What is clitest

clitest is a portable POSIX shell script that performs automatic testing in \ Unix command lines. It’s the same concept as in Python’s doctest module commands and their expected output, using the familiar interactive prompt \ format, and a specialized tool tests them.

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

Install clitest 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 clitest using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install clitest

Install clitest 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 clitest using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install clitest

How To Uninstall clitest on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove clitest

clitest Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/clitest
/usr/share/doc/clitest
/usr/share/doc/clitest/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/clitest
/usr/share/licenses/clitest/LICENSE.txt

References

Summary

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