How To Install eg on CentOS 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install eg on CentOS 8. eg is Git for mere mortals

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install eg on CentOS 8.

What is eg

Easy Git (eg) is a wrapper for git, designed to make git easy to learn and use.

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

Install eg on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install eg

Install eg on CentOS 8 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

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

sudo dnf -y install eg

How To Uninstall eg on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove eg

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install eg on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.