How To Install which on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install which on Rocky Linux 8. which is Displays where a particular program in your path is located

Introduction

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

What is `which`

The which command shows the full pathname of a specified program, if the specified program is in your PATH.

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

Install which 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 which using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install which

Install which 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 which using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install which

How To Uninstall which on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove which

which Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/profile.d/which2.csh
/etc/profile.d/which2.sh
/usr/bin/which
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6c
/usr/lib/.build-id/6c/141fe0cd8f2510009e065255fb75e7df0a6fb9
/usr/share/doc/which
/usr/share/doc/which/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/which/EXAMPLES
/usr/share/doc/which/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/which/README
/usr/share/info/which.info.gz
/usr/share/licenses/which
/usr/share/licenses/which/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/which.1.gz

References

which website

Summary

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