How To Install patchutils on AlmaLinux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install patchutils
on AlmaLinux 8.
What is patchutils
This is a collection of programs that can manipulate patch files in a variety of ways, such as interpolating between two pre-patches, combining two incremental patches, fixing line numbers in hand-edited patches, and simply listing the files modified by a patch.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install patchutils
on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install patchutils.
Install patchutils on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install patchutils
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install patchutils
Install patchutils on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install patchutils
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install patchutils
How To Uninstall patchutils on AlmaLinux 8
To uninstall only the patchutils
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove patchutils
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install patchutils
on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.