How To Install fortune-mod on CentOS 8
fortune-mod is A program which will display a fortune
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fortune-mod on CentOS 8.
What is fortune-mod
Fortune-mod contains the ever-popular fortune program, which will display quotes or witticisms. Fun-loving system administrators can add fortune to users’ .login files, so that the users get their dose of wisdom each time they log in.
We can use yum or dnf to install fortune-mod on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fortune-mod.
Install fortune-mod on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install fortune-mod using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install fortune-mod
Install fortune-mod on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install fortune-mod using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install fortune-mod
How To Uninstall fortune-mod on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the fortune-mod package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove fortune-mod
fortune-mod Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/fortune
/usr/bin/strfile
/usr/bin/unstr
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/00
/usr/lib/.build-id/00/6d2009d5abb64d45de785bccd7cd3b4287104c
/usr/lib/.build-id/6f
/usr/lib/.build-id/6f/8b06e5203a89a245f1224b53d55c8fa4c21dde
/usr/lib/.build-id/e6
/usr/lib/.build-id/e6/bcfb2f5873b94c423c4bd05163dc776d9b9143
/usr/share/doc/fortune-mod
/usr/share/doc/fortune-mod/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/fortune-mod/README
/usr/share/doc/fortune-mod/TODO
/usr/share/games/fortune
/usr/share/games/fortune/art
/usr/share/games/fortune/art.dat
/usr/share/games/fortune/art.u8
/usr/share/games/fortune/ascii-art
/usr/share/games/fortune/ascii-art.dat
/usr/share/games/fortune/ascii-art.u8
/usr/share/games/fortune/bofh-excuses
/usr/share/games/fortune/bofh-excuses.dat
/usr/share/games/fortune/computers
/usr/share/games/fortune/computers.dat
/usr/share/games/fortune/computers.u8
/usr/share/games/fortune/cookie
/usr/share/games/fortune/cookie.dat
/usr/share/games/fortune/cookie.u8
/usr/share/games/fortune/definitions
/usr/share/games/fortune/definitions.dat
/usr/share/games/fortune/definitions.u8
/usr/share/games/fortune/disclaimer
/usr/share/games/fortune/disclaimer.dat
/usr/share/games/fortune/disclaimer.u8
/usr/share/games/fortune/drugs
/usr/share/games/fortune/drugs.dat
/usr/share/games/fortune/drugs.u8
/usr/share/games/fortune/education
/usr/share/games/fortune/education.dat
/usr/share/games/fortune/education.u8
/usr/share/games/fortune/ethnic
/usr/share/games/fortune/ethnic.dat
/usr/share/games/fortune/ethnic.u8
/usr/share/games/fortune/food
/usr/share/games/fortune/food.dat
/usr/share/games/fortune/food.u8
/usr/share/games/fortune/fortunes
/usr/share/games/fortune/fortunes.dat
/usr/share/games/fortune/fortunes.u8
/usr/share/games/fortune/goedel
/usr/share/games/fortune/goedel.dat
/usr/share/games/fortune/goedel.u8
/usr/share/games/fortune/hitchhiker
/usr/share/games/fortune/hitchhiker.dat
/usr/share/games/fortune/humorists
/usr/share/games/fortune/humorists.dat
/usr/share/games/fortune/humorists.u8
/usr/share/games/fortune/humorix-misc
/usr/share/games/fortune/humorix-misc.dat
/usr/share/games/fortune/humorix-stories
/usr/share/games/fortune/humorix-stories.dat
/usr/share/games/fortune/kernelnewbies
/usr/share/games/fortune/kernelnewbies.dat
/usr/share/games/fortune/kids
/usr/share/games/fortune/kids.dat
/usr/share/games/fortune/kids.u8
/usr/share/games/fortune/knghtbrd
/usr/share/games/fortune/knghtbrd.dat
/usr/share/games/fortune/knghtbrd.u8
/usr/share/games/fortune/law
/usr/share/games/fortune/law.dat
/usr/share/games/fortune/law.u8
/usr/share/games/fortune/linux
/usr/share/games/fortune/linux.dat
/usr/share/games/fortune/linux.u8
/usr/share/games/fortune/linuxcookie
/usr/share/games/fortune/linuxcookie.dat
/usr/share/games/fortune/linuxcookie.u8
/usr/share/games/fortune/literature
/usr/share/games/fortune/literature.dat
/usr/share/games/fortune/literature.u8
/usr/share/games/fortune/love
/usr/share/games/fortune/love.dat
/usr/share/games/fortune/love.u8
/usr/share/games/fortune/magic
/usr/share/games/fortune/magic.dat
/usr/share/games/fortune/magic.u8
/usr/share/games/fortune/medicine
/usr/share/games/fortune/medicine.dat
/usr/share/games/fortune/medicine.u8
/usr/share/games/fortune/miscellaneous
/usr/share/games/fortune/miscellaneous.dat
/usr/share/games/fortune/miscellaneous.u8
/usr/share/games/fortune/news
/usr/share/games/fortune/news.dat
/usr/share/games/fortune/news.u8
/usr/share/games/fortune/osfortune
/usr/share/games/fortune/osfortune.dat
/usr/share/games/fortune/paradoxum
/usr/share/games/fortune/paradoxum.dat
/usr/share/games/fortune/paradoxum.u8
/usr/share/games/fortune/people
/usr/share/games/fortune/people.dat
/usr/share/games/fortune/people.u8
/usr/share/games/fortune/perl
/usr/share/games/fortune/perl.dat
/usr/share/games/fortune/perl.u8
/usr/share/games/fortune/pets
/usr/share/games/fortune/pets.dat
/usr/share/games/fortune/pets.u8
/usr/share/games/fortune/platitudes
/usr/share/games/fortune/platitudes.dat
/usr/share/games/fortune/platitudes.u8
/usr/share/games/fortune/politics
/usr/share/games/fortune/politics.dat
/usr/share/games/fortune/politics.u8
/usr/share/games/fortune/pratchett
/usr/share/games/fortune/pratchett.dat
/usr/share/games/fortune/pratchett.u8
/usr/share/games/fortune/riddles
/usr/share/games/fortune/riddles.dat
/usr/share/games/fortune/riddles.u8
/usr/share/games/fortune/science
/usr/share/games/fortune/science.dat
/usr/share/games/fortune/science.u8
/usr/share/games/fortune/songs-poems
/usr/share/games/fortune/songs-poems.dat
/usr/share/games/fortune/songs-poems.u8
/usr/share/games/fortune/sports
/usr/share/games/fortune/sports.dat
/usr/share/games/fortune/sports.u8
/usr/share/games/fortune/startrek
/usr/share/games/fortune/startrek.dat
/usr/share/games/fortune/startrek.u8
/usr/share/games/fortune/tao
/usr/share/games/fortune/tao.dat
/usr/share/games/fortune/tao.u8
/usr/share/games/fortune/translate-me
/usr/share/games/fortune/translate-me.dat
/usr/share/games/fortune/translate-me.u8
/usr/share/games/fortune/wisdom
/usr/share/games/fortune/wisdom.dat
/usr/share/games/fortune/wisdom.u8
/usr/share/games/fortune/work
/usr/share/games/fortune/work.dat
/usr/share/games/fortune/work.u8
/usr/share/games/fortune/zippy
/usr/share/games/fortune/zippy.dat
/usr/share/games/fortune/zippy.u8
/usr/share/licenses/fortune-mod
/usr/share/licenses/fortune-mod/COPYING.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/strfile.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man6/fortune.6.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fortune-mod on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.