How To Install cvsps.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install cvsps.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. cvsps.x86_64 is Patchset tool for CVS

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cvsps.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is cvsps.x86_64

CVSps is a program for generating ‘patchset’ information from a CVS repository. A patchset in this case is defined as a set of changes made to a collection of files, and all committed at the same time (using a single ‘cvs commit’ command). This information is valuable to seeing the big picture of the evolution of a cvs project. While cvs tracks revision information, it is often difficult to see what changes were committed ‘atomically’ to the repository.

We can use yum to install cvsps.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cvsps.x86_64.

Install cvsps.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install cvsps.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cvsps.x86_64

How To Uninstall cvsps.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the cvsps.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove cvsps.x86_64

cvsps.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/cvsps
/usr/share/doc/cvsps-2.2
/usr/share/doc/cvsps-2.2/CHANGELOG
/usr/share/doc/cvsps-2.2/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/cvsps-2.2/README
/usr/share/doc/cvsps-2.2/merge_utils.sh
/usr/share/man/man1/cvsps.1.gz

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cvsps.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.