How To Install eg on Fedora 34

eg is Git for mere mortals

Introduction

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

What is eg

Easy Git (eg) is a wrapper for git, designed to make git easy to learn and use.

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

Install eg 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 eg using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install eg

Install eg 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 eg using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install eg

How To Uninstall eg on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove eg

eg Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/eg
/usr/share/bash-completion
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/eg
/usr/share/doc/eg
/usr/share/doc/eg/README

References

Summary

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