How To Install tree on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install tree on Rocky Linux 8. tree is File system tree viewer

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tree on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `tree`

The tree utility recursively displays the contents of directories in a tree-like format. Tree is basically a UNIX port of the DOS tree utility.

We can use yum or dnf to install tree on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install tree.

Install tree 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 tree using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install tree

Install tree 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 tree using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install tree

How To Uninstall tree on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the tree package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove tree

tree Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/tree
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/47
/usr/lib/.build-id/47/6e749c56abc75d25e3bc5c29e83507a605fd53
/usr/share/doc/tree
/usr/share/doc/tree/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/tree/README
/usr/share/man/man1/tree.1.gz

References

tree website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install tree on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.