How To Install badchars on Fedora 34

badchars is HEX bad char generator for different programming languages

Introduction

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

What is badchars

A HEX bad char generator to instruct encoders such as shikata-ga-nai to transform those to other chars.

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

Install badchars 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 badchars using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install badchars

Install badchars 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 badchars using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install badchars

How To Uninstall badchars on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove badchars

badchars Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/badchars

References

Summary

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