How To Install glogg on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install glogg on Rocky Linux 8. glogg is Smart interactive log explorer

Introduction

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

What is glogg

glogg is a multi-platform GUI application to browse and search through long or complex log files. It is designed with programmers and system administrators in mind. glogg can be seen as a graphical, interactive combination of grep and less.

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

Install glogg 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 glogg using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install glogg

Install glogg 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 glogg using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install glogg

How To Uninstall glogg on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove glogg

glogg Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/glogg
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2f
/usr/lib/.build-id/2f/752fbe686e4070845f76c9d938962301363d1e
/usr/share/applications/glogg.desktop
/usr/share/doc/glogg
/usr/share/doc/glogg/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/glogg/README.md
/usr/share/doc/glogg/TODO
/usr/share/doc/glogg/documentation.html
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/glogg.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/glogg.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/glogg.svg

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Summary

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