How To Install axel on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install axel
on Fedora 36.
What is axel
Axel tries to accelerate HTTP/FTP downloading process by using multiple connections for one file. It can use multiple mirrors for a download. Axel has no dependencies and is lightweight, so it might be useful as a wget clone on byte-critical systems.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install axel
on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install axel.
Install axel on Fedora 36 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install axel
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install axel
Install axel on Fedora 36 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install axel
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install axel
How To Uninstall axel on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the axel
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove axel
axel Package Contents on Fedora 36
/etc/axelrc
/usr/bin/axel
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/fe
/usr/lib/.build-id/fe/f68bbf710851837a1b61e58df552c67b8fb84b
/usr/share/doc/axel
/usr/share/doc/axel/API
/usr/share/doc/axel/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/axel/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/axel
/usr/share/licenses/axel/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/axel.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/axel.mo
/usr/share/locale/id_ID/LC_MESSAGES/axel.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/axel.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/axel.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/axel.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/axel.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/axel.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/axel.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/axel.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/axel.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install axel
on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).