How To Install git-clear 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 git-extras

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install git-extras

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

What is git-clear 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 git-clear 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 git-clear 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 git-clear using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install git-extras

Install git-clear on CentOS 8 using yum

Because git-clear 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 git-clear package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install git-extras

How to upgrade (update) a single package git-clear using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

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

yum update git-extras

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade git-extras

How to Upgrade git-clear 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 git-extras

How To remove git-clear from CentOS 8

To uninstall only the git-clear package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove git-extras

Extra info and code examples

This package provides extra git commands to easily solve typical tasks such as managing remote branches, managing feature/refactor/bug workflows and generate some repository stats.

Conclusion

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

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