How To Install agrep on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install agrep on Fedora 34.
What is agrep
The agrep tool is similar to the commonly used grep utility, but agrep can be used to search for approximate matches. The agrep tool searches text input for lines (or records separated by strings matching arbitrary regexps) that contain an approximate, or fuzzy, match to a specified regexp, and prints the matching lines. Limits can be set on how many errors of each kind are allowed, or only the best matching lines can be output. Unlike other agrep implementations, TRE agrep allows full POSIX regexps of any length, any number of errors, and non-uniform costs.
We can use yum or dnf to install agrep on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install agrep.
Install agrep on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install agrep using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install agrep
Install agrep on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install agrep using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install agrep
How To Uninstall agrep on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the agrep package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove agrep
agrep Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/agrep
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a2
/usr/lib/.build-id/a2/e0fe570d911c94d80c2e53cf80afb71ad7a1fc
/usr/share/man/man1/agrep.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install agrep on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.