How To Install fdupes on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install fdupes on Rocky Linux 8. fdupes is Finds duplicate files in a given set of directories

Introduction

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

What is fdupes

FDUPES is a program for identifying duplicate files residing within specified directories.

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

Install fdupes 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 fdupes using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fdupes

Install fdupes 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 fdupes using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fdupes

How To Uninstall fdupes on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove fdupes

fdupes Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/fdupes
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1d
/usr/lib/.build-id/1d/bef08174d32a0d398be77d38cb494fb6606618
/usr/lib/rpm/macros.d/macros.fdupes
/usr/share/doc/fdupes
/usr/share/doc/fdupes/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/fdupes/README
/usr/share/licenses/fdupes
/usr/share/licenses/fdupes/CONTRIBUTORS
/usr/share/licenses/fdupes/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/fdupes.1.gz

References

Summary

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