How To Install wordgrinder on Fedora 36

Introduction

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

What is wordgrinder

WordGrinder is a Unicode-aware character cell word processor that runs in a terminal (or a Windows console). It is designed to get the hell out of your way and let you get some work done. WordGrinder is a word processor for processing words. It is not WYSIWYG. It is not point and click. It is not a desktop publisher. It is not a text editor. It does not do fonts and it barely does styles. What it does do is words. It’s designed for writing text. It gets out of your way and lets you type

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

Install wordgrinder 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 wordgrinder using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install wordgrinder

Install wordgrinder 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 wordgrinder using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install wordgrinder

How To Uninstall wordgrinder on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove wordgrinder

wordgrinder Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/wordgrinder
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/14
/usr/lib/.build-id/14/aef96064a5232f1cf47727a7511a851f45bb5f
/usr/share/doc/wordgrinder/README.wg
/usr/share/licenses/wordgrinder
/usr/share/licenses/wordgrinder/COPYING.WordGrinder
/usr/share/man/man1/wordgrinder.1.gz

References

• wordgrinder website

Summary

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