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.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install grsync using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install grsync
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.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install grsync using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install grsync
How To Uninstall grsync on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the grsync package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove grsync
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install grsync on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
