How To Install shaman on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install shaman in Fedora 36. shaman is Man pages viewer

Introduction

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

What is `shaman`

Shaman is a software package that allows the user to view, search and run through the manual pages that are installed on the system in a Graphical User Interface (GUI). The aim is to make reading man pages an easy task for newcomers to the GNU/Linux system.

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

Install shaman 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 shaman using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install shaman

Install shaman 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 shaman using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install shaman

How To Uninstall shaman on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove shaman

shaman Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/shaman
/usr/share/applications/shaman.desktop
/usr/share/doc/shaman
/usr/share/doc/shaman/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/shaman/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/shaman/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/shaman/README
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/shaman.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/shaman.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/shaman.png
/usr/share/info/shaman.info.gz
/usr/share/java/shaman.jar
/usr/share/licenses/shaman
/usr/share/licenses/shaman/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/shaman.1.gz
/usr/share/metainfo/shaman.appdata.xml

References

shaman website

Summary

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