How To Install exa on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install exa on Fedora 34.
What is exa
exa is a modern replacement for the command-line program ls that ships with Unix and Linux operating systems, with more features and better defaults. It uses colours to distinguish file types and metadata. It knows about symlinks, extended attributes, and Git. And it’s small, fast, and just one single binary.
We can use yum or dnf to install exa on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install exa.
Install exa 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 exa using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install exa
Install exa 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 exa using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install exa
How To Uninstall exa on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the exa package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove exa
exa Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/exa
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/18
/usr/lib/.build-id/18/6b7033e63383e1ff7df7369985b420bfd02df7
/usr/share/bash-completion
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/exa.bash
/usr/share/doc/exa
/usr/share/doc/exa/README.md
/usr/share/fish
/usr/share/fish/vendor_completions.d
/usr/share/fish/vendor_completions.d/exa.fish
/usr/share/licenses/exa
/usr/share/licenses/exa/LICENCE
/usr/share/man/man1/exa.1.gz
/usr/share/zsh
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_exa
/usr/bin/exa
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ff
/usr/lib/.build-id/ff/6a7decf0c503e979282e688523739dc907dc71
/usr/share/bash-completion
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/exa.bash
/usr/share/doc/exa
/usr/share/doc/exa/README.md
/usr/share/fish
/usr/share/fish/vendor_completions.d
/usr/share/fish/vendor_completions.d/exa.fish
/usr/share/licenses/exa
/usr/share/licenses/exa/LICENCE
/usr/share/zsh
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_exa
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install exa on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
