How To Install fetchlog on Fedora 34

fetchlog is Utility to display new messages of a logfile since last run

Introduction

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

What is fetchlog

The fetchlog utility displays the last new messages of a logfile. It is similar like tail (1) but offers some extra functionality for output formatting. To show only the new messages appeared since the last call fetchlog uses a bookmark to remember which messages have been fetched.

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

Install fetchlog 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 fetchlog using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fetchlog

Install fetchlog 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 fetchlog using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fetchlog

How To Uninstall fetchlog on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove fetchlog

fetchlog Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/fetchlog
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ec
/usr/lib/.build-id/ec/b56eabf04b1de86de1b65cfe118bf728382ee6
/usr/share/doc/fetchlog
/usr/share/doc/fetchlog/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/fetchlog/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/fetchlog/README
/usr/share/doc/fetchlog/README.Nagios
/usr/share/doc/fetchlog/README.SNMP
/usr/share/man/man1/fetchlog.1.gz

References

Summary

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