How To Install bless on Fedora 34

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Introduction

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

What is bless

Bless is a binary (hex) editor, a program that enables you to edit files as sequences of bytes.

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

Install bless 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 bless using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install bless

Install bless 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 bless using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install bless

How To Uninstall bless on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove bless

bless Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/bless
/usr/lib64/bless
/usr/lib64/bless/Bless.Buffers.dll
/usr/lib64/bless/Bless.Gui.Areas.Plugins.dll
/usr/lib64/bless/Bless.Gui.Areas.dll
/usr/lib64/bless/Bless.Gui.Drawers.dll
/usr/lib64/bless/Bless.Gui.Plugins.dll
/usr/lib64/bless/Bless.Gui.dll
/usr/lib64/bless/Bless.Plugins.dll
/usr/lib64/bless/Bless.Tools.Export.Plugins.dll
/usr/lib64/bless/Bless.Tools.Export.dll
/usr/lib64/bless/Bless.Tools.Find.dll
/usr/lib64/bless/Bless.Tools.dll
/usr/lib64/bless/Bless.Util.dll
/usr/lib64/bless/bless.exe
/usr/share/applications/bless.desktop
/usr/share/bless
/usr/share/bless/bless-16-bytes-per-row.layout
/usr/share/bless/bless-48x48.png
/usr/share/bless/bless-about.png
/usr/share/bless/bless-all-number-bases.layout
/usr/share/bless/bless-default.layout
/usr/share/bless/bless.glade
/usr/share/bless/default-preferences.xml
/usr/share/bless/help_script.sh
/usr/share/pixmaps/bless-48x48.png

References

Summary

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