How To Install viewvc on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install viewvc on CentOS 7.
What is viewvc
ViewVC is a browser interface for CVS and Subversion version control repositories. It generates templatized HTML to present navigable directory, revision, and change log listings. It can display specific versions of files as well as diffs between those versions. Basically, ViewVC provides the bulk of the report-like functionality you expect out of your version control tool, but much more prettily than the average textual command-line program output.
We can use yum or dnf to install viewvc on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install viewvc.
Install viewvc on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install viewvc using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install viewvc
Install viewvc 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 viewvc using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install viewvc
How To Uninstall viewvc on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the viewvc package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove viewvc
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install viewvc on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
