How To Install reposurgeon on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install reposurgeon on CentOS 7.
What is reposurgeon
Reposurgeon enables risky operations that version-control systems don’t want to let you do, such as editing past comments and metadata and removing commits. It works with any version control system that can export and import git fast-import streams, including git, hg, fossil, bzr, CVS and RCS. It can also read Subversion dump files directly and can thus be used to script production of very high-quality conversions from Subversion to any supported DVCS.
We can use yum or dnf to install reposurgeon on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install reposurgeon.
Install reposurgeon on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install reposurgeon using yum by running the following command:
Install reposurgeon 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 reposurgeon using dnf by running the following command:
How To Uninstall reposurgeon on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the reposurgeon package we can use the following command:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install reposurgeon on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.