How To Install ed on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install ed in Fedora 36. ed is The GNU line editor

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ed on Fedora 36.

What is `ed`

Ed is a line-oriented text editor, used to create, display, and modify text files (both interactively and via shell scripts). For most purposes, ed has been replaced in normal usage by full-screen editors (emacs and vi, for example). Ed was the original UNIX editor, and may be used by some programs. In general, however, you probably don’t need to install it and you probably won’t use it.

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

Install ed 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 ed using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ed

Install ed 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 ed using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ed

How To Uninstall ed on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove ed

ed Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/ed
/usr/bin/red
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/02
/usr/lib/.build-id/02/9d167dffa41472f293ee156a5ce8ffce158be9
/usr/share/doc/ed
/usr/share/doc/ed/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/ed/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/ed/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/ed/README
/usr/share/doc/ed/TODO
/usr/share/info/ed.info.gz
/usr/share/licenses/ed
/usr/share/licenses/ed/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/ed.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/red.1.gz

References

ed website

Summary

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