How To Install bcal on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bcal on Fedora 34.
What is bcal
bcal (Byte CALculator) is a command-line utility for storage conversions and calculations. Storage, hardware and firmware developers work with numerical calculations regularly e.g., storage unit conversions, address calculations etc. If you are one and can’t calculate the hex address offset for (512 - 16) MiB immediately, or the value when the 43rd bit of a 64-bit address is set, bcal is for you
We can use yum or dnf to install bcal on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install bcal.
Install bcal 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 bcal using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install bcal
Install bcal 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 bcal using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install bcal
How To Uninstall bcal on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the bcal package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove bcal
bcal Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/bcal
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/18
/usr/lib/.build-id/18/e89bea2fc8558541e3cd132844a4351c6ba956
/usr/share/doc/bcal
/usr/share/doc/bcal/CHANGELOG
/usr/share/doc/bcal/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/bcal
/usr/share/licenses/bcal/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/bcal.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bcal on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.