How To Install sensible-utils on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install sensible-utils in Fedora 36. sensible-utils is Utilities for sensible alternative selection

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install sensible-utils on Fedora 36.

What is sensible-utils

This package provides a number of small utilities which are used by programs to sensibly select and spawn an appropriate browser, editor, or pager.

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

Install sensible-utils 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 sensible-utils using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install sensible-utils

Install sensible-utils 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 sensible-utils using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install sensible-utils

How To Uninstall sensible-utils on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the sensible-utils package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove sensible-utils

sensible-utils Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/select-editor
/usr/bin/sensible-browser
/usr/bin/sensible-editor
/usr/bin/sensible-pager
/usr/share/doc/sensible-utils
/usr/share/doc/sensible-utils/changelog
/usr/share/licenses/sensible-utils
/usr/share/licenses/sensible-utils/copyright
/usr/share/man/de/man1/select-editor.1.gz
/usr/share/man/de/man1/sensible-browser.1.gz
/usr/share/man/de/man1/sensible-editor.1.gz
/usr/share/man/de/man1/sensible-pager.1.gz
/usr/share/man/fr/man1/select-editor.1.gz
/usr/share/man/fr/man1/sensible-browser.1.gz
/usr/share/man/fr/man1/sensible-editor.1.gz
/usr/share/man/fr/man1/sensible-pager.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/select-editor.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/sensible-browser.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/sensible-editor.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/sensible-pager.1.gz
/usr/share/man/pt/man1/select-editor.1.gz
/usr/share/man/pt/man1/sensible-browser.1.gz
/usr/share/man/pt/man1/sensible-editor.1.gz
/usr/share/man/pt/man1/sensible-pager.1.gz

References

Summary

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