How To Install rsync on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rsync on Rocky Linux 8.
What is rsync
Rsync uses a reliable algorithm to bring remote and host files into sync very quickly. Rsync is fast because it just sends the differences in the files over the network instead of sending the complete files. Rsync is often used as a very powerful mirroring process or just as a more capable replacement for the rcp command. A technical report which describes the rsync algorithm is included in this package.
We can use yum or dnf to install rsync on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rsync.
Install rsync on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install rsync using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install rsync
Install rsync on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install rsync using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install rsync
How To Uninstall rsync on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the rsync package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove rsync
rsync Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/bin/rsync
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/d9
/usr/lib/.build-id/d9/186ea74a00446276d2204267dcf1e07d0869da
/usr/share/doc/rsync
/usr/share/doc/rsync/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/rsync/OLDNEWS
/usr/share/doc/rsync/README
/usr/share/doc/rsync/support
/usr/share/doc/rsync/support/Makefile
/usr/share/doc/rsync/support/atomic-rsync
/usr/share/doc/rsync/support/cvs2includes
/usr/share/doc/rsync/support/deny-rsync
/usr/share/doc/rsync/support/file-attr-restore
/usr/share/doc/rsync/support/files-to-excludes
/usr/share/doc/rsync/support/git-set-file-times
/usr/share/doc/rsync/support/instant-rsyncd
/usr/share/doc/rsync/support/logfilter
/usr/share/doc/rsync/support/lsh
/usr/share/doc/rsync/support/lsh.sh
/usr/share/doc/rsync/support/mapfrom
/usr/share/doc/rsync/support/mapto
/usr/share/doc/rsync/support/mnt-excl
/usr/share/doc/rsync/support/munge-symlinks
/usr/share/doc/rsync/support/rrsync
/usr/share/doc/rsync/support/rsync-no-vanished
/usr/share/doc/rsync/support/rsync-slash-strip
/usr/share/doc/rsync/support/rsyncstats
/usr/share/doc/rsync/support/savetransfer.c
/usr/share/doc/rsync/tech_report.tex
/usr/share/licenses/rsync
/usr/share/licenses/rsync/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/rsync.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rsync on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.