How To Install poke on CentOS 8

poke is Extensible editor for structured binary data

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install poke on CentOS 8.

What is poke

GNU poke is an interactive, extensible editor for binary data. Not limited to editing basic entities such as bits and bytes, it provides a full-fledged procedural, interactive programming language designed to describe data structures and to operate on them.

We can use yum or dnf to install poke on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install poke.

Install poke 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 poke using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install poke

Install poke 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 poke using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install poke

How To Uninstall poke on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove poke

poke Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/pk-elfextractor
/usr/bin/poke
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5a
/usr/lib/.build-id/5a/859b3397f77917294c257c7bf27bb7c545f7de
/usr/share/doc/poke
/usr/share/doc/poke/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/poke/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/poke/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/poke/README
/usr/share/doc/poke/TODO
/usr/share/info/poke.info-1.gz
/usr/share/info/poke.info-2.gz
/usr/share/info/poke.info.gz
/usr/share/licenses/poke
/usr/share/licenses/poke/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/poke.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install poke on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.