How To Install distro-info-data on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install distro-info-data in Fedora 36. distro-info-data is Information about releases of Debian and Ubuntu (data files)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install distro-info-data on Fedora 36.

What is distro-info-data

Information about all releases of Debian and Ubuntu. The distro-info script will give you the codename for e.g. the latest stable release of your distribution. To get information about a specific distribution there are the debian-distro-info and the ubuntu-distro-info scripts. This package contains the data files.

We can use yum or dnf to install distro-info-data on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install distro-info-data.

Install distro-info-data 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 distro-info-data using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install distro-info-data

Install distro-info-data 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 distro-info-data using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install distro-info-data

How To Uninstall distro-info-data on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the distro-info-data package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove distro-info-data

distro-info-data Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/distro-info
/usr/share/distro-info/debian.csv
/usr/share/distro-info/ubuntu.csv
/usr/share/licenses/distro-info-data
/usr/share/licenses/distro-info-data/copyright

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install distro-info-data on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).