How To Install esh on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install esh on Fedora 34.
What is esh
esh (embedded shell) is a templating engine for evaluating shell commands embedded in arbitrary templates. It’s like ERB (Embedded RuBy) for shell, intended to be used for templating configuration files.
We can use yum or dnf to install esh on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install esh.
Install esh 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 esh using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install esh
Install esh 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 esh using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install esh
How To Uninstall esh on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the esh package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove esh
esh Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/esh
/usr/share/doc/esh
/usr/share/doc/esh/README.adoc
/usr/share/licenses/esh
/usr/share/licenses/esh/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/esh.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install esh on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.