How To Install fossil on Fedora 34

fossil is A distributed SCM with bug tracking and wiki

Introduction

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

What is fossil

Fossil is a simple, high-reliability, distributed software configuration management with distributed bug tracking, distributed wiki and built-in web interface.

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

Install fossil 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 fossil using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fossil

Install fossil 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 fossil using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fossil

How To Uninstall fossil on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove fossil

fossil Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/fossil
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/40
/usr/lib/.build-id/40/efb05e4f9fe2dd75d9b5ab256397560fc4ee04
/usr/share/licenses/fossil
/usr/share/licenses/fossil/COPYRIGHT-BSD2.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/fossil.1.gz
/usr/bin/fossil
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/4c
/usr/lib/.build-id/4c/847611c4d9478d1d5cfd2ff583bc39bc71d37c
/usr/share/licenses/fossil
/usr/share/licenses/fossil/COPYRIGHT-BSD2.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/fossil.1.gz

References

Summary

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