How To Install gitweb on Rocky Linux 8

Introduction

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

What is gitweb

Simple web interface to git repositories.

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

Install gitweb 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 gitweb using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gitweb

Install gitweb 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 gitweb using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gitweb

How To Uninstall gitweb on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove gitweb

gitweb Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/gitweb.conf
/etc/httpd/conf.d/gitweb.conf
/usr/share/doc/git/INSTALL.gitweb
/usr/share/doc/git/README.gitweb
/usr/share/doc/git/gitweb.conf.html
/usr/share/doc/git/gitweb.conf.txt
/usr/share/doc/git/gitweb.html
/usr/share/doc/git/gitweb.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/gitweb.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/gitweb.conf.5.gz
/var/www/git
/var/www/git/gitweb.cgi
/var/www/git/static
/var/www/git/static/git-favicon.png
/var/www/git/static/git-logo.png
/var/www/git/static/gitweb.css
/var/www/git/static/gitweb.js

References

• gitweb website

Summary

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