How To Install six on Fedora 34

six is Hex playing program

Introduction

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

What is `six`

Six is a Hex playing program for Linux/Un*x systems running KDE. It has a strong AI, an easy to use GUI and can import emails from Richard’s PBEM server.

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

Install six 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 six using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install six

Install six 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 six using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install six

How To Uninstall six on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove six

six Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/six
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/cb
/usr/lib/.build-id/cb/f7fbcfd00a48bdf707d6b3e8e996b8f83a4803
/usr/share/applications/six.desktop
/usr/share/apps/six
/usr/share/apps/six/sixui.rc
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/six
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/six/filter.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/six/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/six/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/six
/usr/share/doc/six/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/six/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/six/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/six/README
/usr/share/doc/six/TODO
/usr/share/doc/six/VERSION
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/actions/blackplayer.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/actions/swap.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/actions/whiteplayer.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/six.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/six.png
/usr/share/icons/locolor
/usr/share/icons/locolor/16x16
/usr/share/icons/locolor/16x16/actions
/usr/share/icons/locolor/16x16/actions/blackplayer.png
/usr/share/icons/locolor/16x16/actions/swap.png
/usr/share/icons/locolor/16x16/actions/whiteplayer.png
/usr/share/icons/locolor/16x16/apps
/usr/share/icons/locolor/16x16/apps/six.png
/usr/share/icons/locolor/22x22
/usr/share/icons/locolor/22x22/actions
/usr/share/icons/locolor/22x22/actions/blackplayer.png
/usr/share/icons/locolor/22x22/actions/swap.png
/usr/share/icons/locolor/22x22/actions/whiteplayer.png
/usr/share/icons/locolor/32x32
/usr/share/icons/locolor/32x32/apps
/usr/share/icons/locolor/32x32/apps/six.png
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/six.mo
/usr/share/mimelnk/application/vnd.kde.six.desktop

References

six website

Summary

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