How To Install hxtools on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install hxtools on CentOS 8.
What is hxtools
hxtools contains several tools for different tasks written by Jan Engelhardt. Currently only these tools are included in Fedora * fd0ssh - Pipe for password-over-stdin support to ssh * git-forest - A text-based git tree visualizer * ofl - Open file lister (replaces fuser and lsof -m) * peicon - PE files icons extractor
We can use yum or dnf to install hxtools on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install hxtools.
Install hxtools on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install hxtools using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install hxtools
Install hxtools on CentOS 8 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 hxtools using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install hxtools
How To Uninstall hxtools on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the hxtools package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove hxtools
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install hxtools on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.