How To Install cheat on Fedora 34

cheat is Help for various commands and their use cases

Introduction

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

What is cheat

Cheat allows you to create and view interactive cheatsheets on the command- line. It was designed to help remind *nix system administrators of options for commands that they use frequently, but not frequently enough to remember.

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

Install cheat 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 cheat using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install cheat

Install cheat 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 cheat using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cheat

How To Uninstall cheat on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove cheat

cheat Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/cheat/conf.yml
/usr/bin/cheat
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/af
/usr/lib/.build-id/af/ecfdfad4ce57edc749da267ddc91d6ecc224a4
/usr/share/doc/cheat
/usr/share/doc/cheat/CONTRIBUTING.md
/usr/share/doc/cheat/README.md
/usr/share/doc/cheat/docopt.txt
/usr/share/licenses/cheat
/usr/share/licenses/cheat/LICENSE.txt

References

Summary

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