How To Install e3 on Fedora 34

e3 is Text editor with key bindings similar to WordStar, Emacs, pico, nedit, or vi

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install e3 on Fedora 34.

What is e3

e3 is a full-screen, user-friendly text editor with an key bindings similar to that of either WordStar, Emacs, pico, nedit, or vi.

We can use yum or dnf to install e3 on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install e3.

Install e3 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 e3 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install e3

Install e3 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 e3 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install e3

How To Uninstall e3 on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the e3 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove e3

e3 Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/e3
/usr/bin/e3em
/usr/bin/e3ne
/usr/bin/e3pi
/usr/bin/e3vi
/usr/bin/e3ws
/usr/share/doc/e3
/usr/share/doc/e3/COPYING.GPL
/usr/share/doc/e3/COPYRIGHT
/usr/share/doc/e3/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/e3/README
/usr/share/doc/e3/README.v2.7.1
/usr/share/doc/e3/e3.html
/usr/share/man/man1/e3.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/e3em.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/e3ne.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/e3pi.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/e3vi.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/e3ws.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install e3 on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.