How To Install clippy on Fedora 34

clippy is Lints to catch common mistakes and improve your Rust code

Introduction

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

What is clippy

A collection of lints to catch common mistakes and improve your Rust code.

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

Install clippy 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 clippy using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install clippy

Install clippy 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 clippy using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install clippy

How To Uninstall clippy on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove clippy

clippy Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/cargo-clippy
/usr/bin/clippy-driver
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/03
/usr/lib/.build-id/03/1abda766e5787e4153ebca33146054428b20e9
/usr/lib/.build-id/19
/usr/lib/.build-id/19/838b1c18280fcadda984a2c5882f37b5e1d2ab
/usr/share/doc/clippy
/usr/share/doc/clippy/CHANGELOG.md
/usr/share/doc/clippy/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/clippy
/usr/share/licenses/clippy/LICENSE-APACHE
/usr/share/licenses/clippy/LICENSE-MIT
/usr/bin/cargo-clippy
/usr/bin/clippy-driver
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/eb
/usr/lib/.build-id/eb/4cd49f65c64f425b95d8d01c7ee9ef7f7443ec
/usr/lib/.build-id/ff
/usr/lib/.build-id/ff/4f033709e03368ae66367f66d85eb963ab52ab
/usr/share/doc/clippy
/usr/share/doc/clippy/CHANGELOG.md
/usr/share/doc/clippy/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/clippy
/usr/share/licenses/clippy/LICENSE-APACHE
/usr/share/licenses/clippy/LICENSE-MIT

References

Summary

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