How To Install tig on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tig on CentOS 7.
What is tig
Tig is a repository browser for the git revision control system that additionally can act as a pager for output from various git commands. When browsing repositories, it uses the underlying git commands to present the user with various views, such as summarized revision log and showing the commit with the log message, diffstat, and the diff. Using it as a pager, it will display input from stdin and colorize it.
We can use yum or dnf to install tig on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install tig.
Install tig on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install tig using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install tig
Install tig 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.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install tig using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install tig
How To Uninstall tig on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the tig package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove tig
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tig on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
