Re: xxdiff missing from F32

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On Thu, 2 Jul 2020 06:12:37 -0700 stan via users wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Jul 2020 14:18:44 +0200
> Frank Elsner <frank.elsner@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > I've fresh install of F32 and cannot install xxdiff which is missing
> > from repos:
> > 
> > # dnf install xxdiff
> > Last metadata expiration check: 0:52:40 ago on Thu 02 Jul 2020
> > 01:25:14 PM CEST. No match for argument: xxdiff
> > Error: Unable to find a match: xxdiff
> > 
> > A F32 system which was upgraded from F31 has xxdiff installed.
> > What happened to xxdiff?
> 
> xxdiff-tools is a python2 package, and so is obsoleted in F32 because
> of the end of support for python2 by the developers.  You can probably
> go to koji and get the F31 xxdiff src.rpm package, rpmbuild it, install
> python2 on your system, and run it still, but it will receive no
> maintenance.  You might even be able to still use the binary rpms
> for xxdiff and xxdiff-tools from F31.  Both of these are contingent on
> the dependencies being available.  You might have to install a lot of
> them the same way to get it working on F32.


Thanks for the explaination. 
I've found and installed a xxdiff-4.0.1-10.fc31.x86_64.rpm. Works like a charm.

--Frank
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