How To Install bournal on Fedora 34

bournal is Write personal, password-protected journal entries

Introduction

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

What is `bournal`

Bournal is a bash script that allows you to keep a personal, minimalistic, password-protected journal, log, or diary. It includes encryption, regexp searches, and a date-sorted list for editing old entries. Since Bournal is pure bash, it should be easily editable for the CLI-savvy.

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

Install bournal 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 bournal using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install bournal

Install bournal 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 bournal using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install bournal

How To Uninstall bournal on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove bournal

bournal Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/bournal
/usr/share/doc/bournal
/usr/share/doc/bournal/README
/usr/share/doc/bournal/changelog.txt
/usr/share/licenses/bournal
/usr/share/licenses/bournal/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/bournal.1.gz

References

bournal website

Summary

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