How To Install expect on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install expect on Fedora 34.
What is expect
Expect is a tcl application for automating and testing interactive applications such as telnet, ftp, passwd, fsck, rlogin, tip, etc. Expect makes it easy for a script to control another program and interact with it. This package contains expect and some scripts that use it.
We can use yum or dnf to install expect on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install expect.
Install expect 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 expect using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install expect
Install expect 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 expect using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install expect
How To Uninstall expect on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the expect package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove expect
expect Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/autoexpect
/usr/bin/dislocate
/usr/bin/expect
/usr/bin/ftp-rfc
/usr/bin/kibitz
/usr/bin/lpunlock
/usr/bin/mkpasswd-expect
/usr/bin/passmass
/usr/bin/rftp
/usr/bin/rlogin-cwd
/usr/bin/timed-read
/usr/bin/timed-run
/usr/bin/unbuffer
/usr/bin/weather
/usr/bin/xkibitz
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/14
/usr/lib/.build-id/14/2b2e4f42a84125f3b922b0ecfd9263f27f1169
/usr/lib/.build-id/6b
/usr/lib/.build-id/6b/257802a51571f4ff73882ce29bae84d9775d62
/usr/lib64/libexpect.so
/usr/lib64/libexpect5.45.4.so
/usr/lib64/tcl8.6/expect5.45.4
/usr/lib64/tcl8.6/expect5.45.4/pkgIndex.tcl
/usr/share/doc/expect
/usr/share/doc/expect/FAQ
/usr/share/doc/expect/HISTORY
/usr/share/doc/expect/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/expect/README
/usr/share/man/man1/autoexpect.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/dislocate.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/expect.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/kibitz.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/mkpasswd-expect.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/passmass.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/unbuffer.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/xkibitz.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install expect on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.