How To Install codespell on Fedora 34

codespell is Fix common misspellings in text files

Introduction

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

What is codespell

codespell fixes common misspellings in text files. It’s designed primarily for checking misspelled words in source code, but it can be used with other files as well.

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

Install codespell 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 codespell using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install codespell

Install codespell 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 codespell using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install codespell

How To Uninstall codespell on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove codespell

codespell Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/codespell
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/codespell-2.0.0-py3.9.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/codespell-2.0.0-py3.9.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/codespell-2.0.0-py3.9.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/codespell-2.0.0-py3.9.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/codespell-2.0.0-py3.9.egg-info/entry_points.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/codespell-2.0.0-py3.9.egg-info/not-zip-safe
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/codespell-2.0.0-py3.9.egg-info/requires.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/codespell-2.0.0-py3.9.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/codespell_lib
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/codespell_lib/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/codespell_lib/__main__.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/codespell_lib/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/codespell_lib/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/codespell_lib/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/codespell_lib/__pycache__/__main__.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/codespell_lib/__pycache__/__main__.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/codespell_lib/__pycache__/_codespell.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/codespell_lib/__pycache__/_codespell.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/codespell_lib/_codespell.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/codespell_lib/data
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/codespell_lib/data/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/codespell_lib/data/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/codespell_lib/data/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/codespell_lib/data/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/codespell_lib/data/dictionary.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/codespell_lib/data/dictionary_code.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/codespell_lib/data/dictionary_en-GB_to_en-US.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/codespell_lib/data/dictionary_informal.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/codespell_lib/data/dictionary_names.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/codespell_lib/data/dictionary_rare.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/codespell_lib/data/dictionary_usage.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/codespell_lib/data/linux-kernel.exclude
/usr/share/doc/codespell
/usr/share/doc/codespell/README.rst

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Summary

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