How To Install castget on Fedora 34

castget is A command-line podcast downloader

Introduction

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

What is castget

castget is a simple, command-line based RSS enclosure downloader. It is primarily intended for automatic, unattended downloading of podcasts.

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

Install castget 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 castget using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install castget

Install castget 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 castget using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install castget

How To Uninstall castget on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove castget

castget Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/castget
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2c
/usr/lib/.build-id/2c/e0b6129df28836e82055c49575b664aefbd989
/usr/share/doc/castget
/usr/share/doc/castget/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/castget/CHANGES.md
/usr/share/doc/castget/ChangeLog.old
/usr/share/doc/castget/INSTALL
/usr/share/doc/castget/castgetrc.example
/usr/share/licenses/castget
/usr/share/licenses/castget/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/castget/COPYING.LIB
/usr/share/man/man1/castget.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/castgetrc.5.gz

References

Summary

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