How To Install cocot on Fedora 34

cocot is COde COnverter on Tty

Introduction

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

What is cocot

Cocot is a kanji code conversion program, running as a filter between a terminal (tty) and a process running on it. Cocot can be used with ssh or telnet.

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

Install cocot 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 cocot using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install cocot

Install cocot 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 cocot using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cocot

How To Uninstall cocot on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove cocot

cocot Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/cocot
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/99
/usr/lib/.build-id/99/0371c7344e48bbd1d6d53cf18133dcd2f70719
/usr/share/doc/cocot
/usr/share/doc/cocot/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/cocot/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/cocot/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/cocot/README
/usr/share/doc/cocot/README.ja

References

Summary

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