How To Install clips on Fedora 34

clips is Language for developing expert systems

Introduction

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

What is clips

CLIPS (C Language Integrated Production System) is an expert system development tool which provides a complete environment for the construction of rule and/or object based expert systems. Created in 1985 by NASA at the Johnson Space Center, CLIPS is now widely used throughout the government, industry, and academia. This package provides the CLIPS command line environment and the clips library.

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

Install clips 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 clips using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install clips

Install clips 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 clips using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install clips

How To Uninstall clips on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove clips

clips Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/clips
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/23
/usr/lib/.build-id/23/3be8eabc22486e63689361ceba1f3a92da0dbb

References

Summary

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