How To Install ascii on Fedora 34

ascii is Interactive ascii name and synonym chart

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ascii on Fedora 34.

What is `ascii`

The ascii utility provides easy conversion between various byte representations and the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) character table. It knows about a wide variety of hex, binary, octal, Teletype mnemonic, ISO/ECMA code point, slang names, XML entity names, and other representations. Given any one on the command line, it will try to display all others. Called with no arguments it displays a handy small ASCII chart.

We can use yum or dnf to install ascii on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ascii.

Install ascii 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 ascii using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ascii

Install ascii 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 ascii using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ascii

How To Uninstall ascii on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove ascii

ascii Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/ascii
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5d
/usr/lib/.build-id/5d/ddc56212668e28fe4dc631dcb037a514f12782
/usr/share/doc/ascii
/usr/share/doc/ascii/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/ascii/README
/usr/share/man/man1/ascii.1.gz

References

ascii website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ascii on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.