How To Install magic-wormhole on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install magic-wormhole in Fedora 36. magic-wormhole is Securely transfer data between computers

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install magic-wormhole on Fedora 36.

What is magic-wormhole

Get things from one computer to another, safely. This package provides a library and a command-line tool named wormhole, which makes it possible to get arbitrary-sized files and directories (or short pieces of text) from one computer to another. The two endpoints are identified by using identical “wormhole codes” general, the sending machine generates and displays the code, which must then be typed into the receiving machine. The codes are short and human-pronounceable, using a phonetically-distinct wordlist. The receiving side offers tab-completion on the codewords, so usually only a few characters must be typed. Wormhole codes are single-use and do not need to be memorized. This package contains the wormhole program.

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

Install magic-wormhole 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 magic-wormhole using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install magic-wormhole

Install magic-wormhole 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 magic-wormhole using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install magic-wormhole

How To Uninstall magic-wormhole on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the magic-wormhole package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove magic-wormhole

magic-wormhole Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/wormhole
/usr/share/doc/magic-wormhole
/usr/share/doc/magic-wormhole/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/magic-wormhole
/usr/share/licenses/magic-wormhole/LICENSE

References

Summary

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