How To Install tofrodos on AlmaLinux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tofrodos on AlmaLinux 8.
What is tofrodos
Tofrodos is a text file conversion utility that converts ASCII and Unicode UTF-8 files between the MSDOS (or Windows) format, which traditionally have CR/LF (carriage return/line feed) pairs as their new line delimiters, and the Unix format, which usually have LFs (line feeds) to terminate each line. It is a useful utility to have around when you have to convert files between MSDOS (or Windows) and Unix/Linux/BSD (and her clones and variants). It comes standard with a number of systems and is often found on the system as “todos”, “fromdos”, “dos2unix” and “unix2dos”.
We can use yum or dnf to install tofrodos on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install tofrodos.
Install tofrodos 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 tofrodos using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install tofrodos
Install tofrodos 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 tofrodos using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install tofrodos
How To Uninstall tofrodos on AlmaLinux 8
To uninstall only the tofrodos package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove tofrodos
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tofrodos on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.
