How To Install augeas on Fedora 34

augeas is A library for changing configuration files

Introduction

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

What is augeas

A library for programmatically editing configuration files. Augeas parses configuration files into a tree structure, which it exposes through its public API. Changes made through the API are written back to the initially read files. The transformation works very hard to preserve comments and formatting details. It is controlled by ``lens’’ definitions that describe the file format and the transformation into a tree.

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

Install augeas 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 augeas using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install augeas

Install augeas 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 augeas using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install augeas

How To Uninstall augeas on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove augeas

augeas Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/augmatch
/usr/bin/augparse
/usr/bin/augtool
/usr/bin/fadot
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/57
/usr/lib/.build-id/57/4fd334aa66a07291f4c8e966dd1f7417a3abad
/usr/lib/.build-id/85
/usr/lib/.build-id/85/4ea73fea1b97c8de0416905a957e35d2df1d25
/usr/lib/.build-id/9e
/usr/lib/.build-id/9e/995be63fe765eca3372758857864decd095837
/usr/lib/.build-id/ee
/usr/lib/.build-id/ee/5803d1032af4d77534d593b237416902399ac6
/usr/share/man/man1/augmatch.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/augparse.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/augtool.1.gz
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/ftdetect/augeas.vim
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/syntax/augeas.vim
/usr/bin/augmatch
/usr/bin/augparse
/usr/bin/augtool
/usr/bin/fadot
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/76
/usr/lib/.build-id/76/ff8237dc2882f6be3eb42fdf15db9cc75c9beb
/usr/lib/.build-id/86
/usr/lib/.build-id/86/36dfe2e1dea7237ab1e86bdb89cd2c7462c3d1
/usr/lib/.build-id/a7
/usr/lib/.build-id/a7/87cda9608b890631cac1a94166adb3b5381626
/usr/lib/.build-id/a7/c3f391ed44aef498d1ac707b40f0a02a14309a
/usr/share/man/man1/augmatch.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/augparse.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/augtool.1.gz
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/ftdetect/augeas.vim
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/syntax/augeas.vim

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Summary

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