How To Install bidiv on Fedora 34

bidiv is Display logical Hebrew on unidirectional terminals

Introduction

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

What is bidiv

Bidiv (BiDirectional Viewer) is a simple utility for converting logical-Hebrew input to visual-Hebrew output. This is useful for reading Hebrew mail messages, viewing Hebrew texts, etc.

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

Install bidiv 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 bidiv using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install bidiv

Install bidiv 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 bidiv using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install bidiv

How To Uninstall bidiv on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove bidiv

bidiv Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/bidiv
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/59
/usr/lib/.build-id/59/96dc9857b7588f28382cc374fac9664a935153
/usr/share/doc/bidiv
/usr/share/doc/bidiv/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/bidiv/README
/usr/share/man/man1/bidiv.1.gz

References

Summary

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