How To Install complexity on CentOS 8

One-liner Install Command

If you are only interested in the installation command, here is a quick answer for you:

sudo yum makecache && sudo yum -y install complexity

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install complexity

But if you are interested in the details with step-by-step instructions, the following information will be helpful.

What is complexity and How to Install It?

First things first, you will need access to a server or computer running CentOS 8. This guide was written specifically with a server running CentOS 8 in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install complexity on CentOS 8. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install complexity on CentOS 8 using dnf

First, update dnf packages database with dnf by running the next command:

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating database, You can install complexity using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install complexity

Install complexity on CentOS 8 using yum

Because complexity is available in CentOS 8’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the yum packaging system.

To begin, update local packages database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

Now can install complexity package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install complexity

How to upgrade (update) a single package complexity using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

If you want to update a specific package like complexity in this example you should use the following command:

yum update complexity

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade complexity

How to Upgrade complexity on CentOS 8 with dnf?

When you run the dnf update, all system packages with available updates are updated. However, if you want to upgrade a single package, then you would have to pass the package name as the argument to the dnf update command.

dnf update complexity

How To remove complexity from CentOS 8

To uninstall only the complexity package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove complexity

Extra info and code examples

Complexity measurement tool help to: * locate suspicious areas in unfamiliar code * get an idea of how much effort may be required to understand that code * get an idea of the effort required to test a code base * provide a reminder to yourself. You may see what you've written as obvious, but others may not. Comparing with existing tool McCabe, this program improves scoring of following language constructs: * code length * switch statement * logic conditions

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install complexity using dnf and yum package managers. Also, we showed how to update manually as a single package and different ways to uninstall the complexity from CentOS 8.

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