How To Install boxes on Fedora 34

boxes is Draw any kind of box around some given text

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install boxes on Fedora 34.

What is `boxes`

“boxes” is a text filter which can draw ASCII art boxes around its input text. These boxes may also be removed, even if they have been badly damaged by editing of the text inside. Since boxes may be open on any side, boxes can also be used to create regional comments in any programming language. With the help of an editor macro or mapping, damaged boxes can easily be repaired. This is useful for making the function headers in your programming language look better, for spicing up your news postings and emails, or just for decorating your documentation files. New box designs of all sorts can easily be added and shared by appending to a free format configuration file. boxes was intended to be used with the vim text editor, but can be tied to any text editor which supports filters.

We can use yum or dnf to install boxes on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install boxes.

Install boxes on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install boxes using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install boxes

Install boxes on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install boxes using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install boxes

How To Uninstall boxes on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove boxes

boxes Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/boxes
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/9a
/usr/lib/.build-id/9a/28d6f5e4162dcff6ffe69bf679e3e1032a56b1
/usr/share/boxes
/usr/share/boxes/boxes
/usr/share/doc/boxes
/usr/share/doc/boxes/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/boxes
/usr/share/licenses/boxes/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/boxes.1.gz
/usr/bin/boxes
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ed
/usr/lib/.build-id/ed/4ff63bf0d7670dfdf07fb804c9b880bb0e6668
/usr/share/boxes
/usr/share/boxes/boxes
/usr/share/doc/boxes
/usr/share/doc/boxes/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/boxes
/usr/share/licenses/boxes/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/boxes.1.gz

References

boxes website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install boxes on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.