How To Install ed on Fedora 34

ed is The GNU line editor

Introduction

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

What is ed

Ed is a line-oriented text editor, used to create, display, and modify text files (both interactively and via shell scripts). For most purposes, ed has been replaced in normal usage by full-screen editors (emacs and vi, for example). Ed was the original UNIX editor, and may be used by some programs. In general, however, you probably don’t need to install it and you probably won’t use it.

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

Install ed 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 ed using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ed

Install ed 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 ed using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ed

How To Uninstall ed on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove ed

ed Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/ed
/usr/bin/red
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2c
/usr/lib/.build-id/2c/43e22e3296114a66132328b6d852291e5a64ad
/usr/share/doc/ed
/usr/share/doc/ed/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/ed/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/ed/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/ed/README
/usr/share/doc/ed/TODO
/usr/share/info/ed.info.gz
/usr/share/licenses/ed
/usr/share/licenses/ed/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/ed.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/red.1.gz

References

Summary

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