How To Install finger on Fedora 34

finger is The finger client

Introduction

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

What is `finger`

Finger is a utility which allows users to see information about system users (login name, home directory, name, how long they’ve been logged in to the system, etc.). The finger package includes a standard finger client. You should install finger if you’d like to retrieve finger information from other systems.

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

Install finger 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 finger using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install finger

Install finger 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 finger using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install finger

How To Uninstall finger on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove finger

finger Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/finger
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/e0
/usr/lib/.build-id/e0/caf6ca4cca0b251be02a84fbc99b642f4def7d
/usr/share/doc/finger
/usr/share/doc/finger/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/finger.1.gz

References

finger website

Summary

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