How To Install meld on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install meld
on CentOS 7.
What is meld
Meld is a visual diff and merge tool targeted at developers. It helps you compare files, directories, and version controlled projects. It provides two- and three-way comparison of both files and directories, and the tabbed interface allows you to open many diffs at once. Meld has has support for many popular version control systems including Git, Mercurial, Bazaar, SVN and CVS. The diff viewer lets you edit files in place (diffs update dynamically), and a middle column shows detailed changes and allows merges. The margins show location of changes for easy navigation.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install meld
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install meld.
Install meld on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install meld
using yum
by running the following command:
Install meld 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 meld
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall meld on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the meld
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install meld
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.