How To Install autojump on Fedora 34

autojump is A fast way to navigate your filesystem from the command line

Introduction

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

What is autojump

autojump is a faster way to navigate your filesystem. It works by maintaining a database of the directories you use the most from the command line.

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

Install autojump 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 autojump using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install autojump

Install autojump 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 autojump using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install autojump

How To Uninstall autojump on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove autojump

autojump Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/profile.d/autojump.sh
/usr/bin/autojump
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/__pycache__/autojump_data.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/__pycache__/autojump_data.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/__pycache__/autojump_match.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/__pycache__/autojump_match.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/__pycache__/autojump_utils.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/__pycache__/autojump_utils.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/autojump_data.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/autojump_match.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/autojump_utils.py
/usr/share/autojump
/usr/share/autojump/autojump.bash
/usr/share/autojump/icon.png
/usr/share/doc/autojump
/usr/share/doc/autojump/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/autojump/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/autojump
/usr/share/licenses/autojump/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/autojump.1.gz

References

Summary

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