How To Install gnucobol on Fedora 34
gnucobol is COBOL compiler
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnucobol on Fedora 34.
What is gnucobol
COBOL compiler, which translates COBOL programs to C code and compiles them using GCC.
We can use yum or dnf to install gnucobol on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gnucobol.
Install gnucobol 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 gnucobol using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install gnucobol
Install gnucobol 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 gnucobol using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install gnucobol
How To Uninstall gnucobol on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the gnucobol package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove gnucobol
gnucobol Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/cob-config
/usr/bin/cobc
/usr/bin/cobcrun
/usr/include/libcob
/usr/include/libcob.h
/usr/include/libcob/cobgetopt.h
/usr/include/libcob/common.h
/usr/include/libcob/exception-io.def
/usr/include/libcob/exception.def
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/09
/usr/lib/.build-id/09/13cdb3575e454699a54dc7431f569b3fd8d5e3
/usr/lib/.build-id/4a
/usr/lib/.build-id/4a/b86739f0080669bc90123073cfe7d88af14ce2
/usr/lib64/gnucobol
/usr/lib64/gnucobol/CBL_OC_DUMP.so
/usr/lib64/libcob.so
/usr/share/doc/gnucobol
/usr/share/doc/gnucobol/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/gnucobol/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/gnucobol/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/gnucobol/README
/usr/share/doc/gnucobol/THANKS
/usr/share/gnucobol
/usr/share/gnucobol/config
/usr/share/gnucobol/config/acu-strict.conf
/usr/share/gnucobol/config/acu.conf
/usr/share/gnucobol/config/acu.words
/usr/share/gnucobol/config/bs2000-strict.conf
/usr/share/gnucobol/config/bs2000.conf
/usr/share/gnucobol/config/bs2000.words
/usr/share/gnucobol/config/cobol2002.conf
/usr/share/gnucobol/config/cobol2002.words
/usr/share/gnucobol/config/cobol2014.conf
/usr/share/gnucobol/config/cobol2014.words
/usr/share/gnucobol/config/cobol85.conf
/usr/share/gnucobol/config/cobol85.words
/usr/share/gnucobol/config/default.conf
/usr/share/gnucobol/config/ibm-strict.conf
/usr/share/gnucobol/config/ibm.conf
/usr/share/gnucobol/config/ibm.words
/usr/share/gnucobol/config/lax.conf-inc
/usr/share/gnucobol/config/mf-strict.conf
/usr/share/gnucobol/config/mf.conf
/usr/share/gnucobol/config/mf.words
/usr/share/gnucobol/config/mvs-strict.conf
/usr/share/gnucobol/config/mvs.conf
/usr/share/gnucobol/config/mvs.words
/usr/share/gnucobol/config/realia-strict.conf
/usr/share/gnucobol/config/realia.conf
/usr/share/gnucobol/config/realia.words
/usr/share/gnucobol/config/rm-strict.conf
/usr/share/gnucobol/config/rm.conf
/usr/share/gnucobol/config/rm.words
/usr/share/gnucobol/config/runtime.cfg
/usr/share/gnucobol/config/runtime_empty.cfg
/usr/share/gnucobol/config/xopen.conf
/usr/share/gnucobol/copy
/usr/share/gnucobol/copy/screenio.cpy
/usr/share/gnucobol/copy/sqlca.cpy
/usr/share/gnucobol/copy/sqlda.cpy
/usr/share/gnucobol/copy/xfhfcd.cpy
/usr/share/gnucobol/copy/xfhfcd3.cpy
/usr/share/info/gnucobol.info.gz
/usr/share/licenses/gnucobol
/usr/share/licenses/gnucobol/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/gnucobol/COPYING.DOC
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/gnucobol.mo
/usr/share/locale/en@boldquot/LC_MESSAGES/gnucobol.mo
/usr/share/locale/en@quot/LC_MESSAGES/gnucobol.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/gnucobol.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/gnucobol.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/gnucobol.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/gnucobol.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/gnucobol.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/gnucobol.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/gnucobol.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/gnucobol.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/cob-config.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/cobc.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/cobcrun.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnucobol on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.