How To Install grsync on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install grsync
on CentOS 7.
What is grsync
Grsync is a GUI (Graphical User Interface) for rsync, the commandline directory synchronization tool. It makes use of the GTK libraries and is released under the GPL license, so it is opensource. It is in beta stage and doesn’t support all of rsync features, but can be effectively used to synchronize local directories. For example some people use grsync to synchronize their music collection with removable devices or to backup personal files to a networked drive.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install grsync
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install grsync.
Install grsync on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install grsync
using yum
by running the following command:
Install grsync on CentOS 7 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.
After updating yum database, We can install grsync
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall grsync on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the grsync
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install grsync
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.