How To Install nedit on Fedora 34

nedit is A GUI text editor for systems with X

Introduction

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

What is nedit

NEdit is a GUI text editor for the X Window System. NEdit is very easy to use, especially if you are familiar with the Macintosh or Microsoft Windows style of interface.

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

Install nedit 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 nedit using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install nedit

Install nedit 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 nedit using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install nedit

How To Uninstall nedit on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove nedit

nedit Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/nedit
/usr/bin/nedit-client
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/70
/usr/lib/.build-id/70/e6b9ef89a8e099d8a3caf06d223cba10945d9a
/usr/lib/.build-id/99
/usr/lib/.build-id/99/5156916726dab3b6ef4c03d76199e6c96fffaf
/usr/share/applications/nedit.desktop
/usr/share/doc/nedit
/usr/share/doc/nedit/README
/usr/share/doc/nedit/ReleaseNotes
/usr/share/icons/hicolor
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/nedit.png
/usr/share/man/man1/nedit-client.1x.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/nedit.1x.gz

References

Summary

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