How To Install banner on Fedora 34

banner is Prints a short string to the console in very large letters

Introduction

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

What is banner

Classic-style banner program similar to the one found in Solaris or AIX. The banner program prints a short string to the console in very large letters.

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

Install banner 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 banner using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install banner

Install banner 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 banner using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install banner

How To Uninstall banner on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove banner

/usr/bin/banner
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b3
/usr/lib/.build-id/b3/76bfcb9d89818b8cdc7cd431b4380f4b30937b
/usr/share/doc/banner
/usr/share/doc/banner/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/banner/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/banner/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/banner/README
/usr/share/man/man1/banner.1.gz

References

Summary

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