How To Install gocomplete on Fedora 34

gocomplete is Tool for writing bash completion in Go

Introduction

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

What is gocomplete

A tool for writing bash completion in Go, and bash completion for the Go command line.

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

Install gocomplete 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 gocomplete using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gocomplete

Install gocomplete 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 gocomplete using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gocomplete

How To Uninstall gocomplete on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove gocomplete

gocomplete Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/gocomplete
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/3d
/usr/lib/.build-id/3d/de3f1fc4291685094531098e85ca22de0517bd
/usr/share/doc/gocomplete
/usr/share/doc/gocomplete/README.md
/usr/share/doc/gocomplete/example
/usr/share/doc/gocomplete/example/command
/usr/share/doc/gocomplete/example/command/main.go
/usr/share/doc/gocomplete/example/compflag
/usr/share/doc/gocomplete/example/compflag/main.go
/usr/share/doc/gocomplete/example/stdlib
/usr/share/doc/gocomplete/example/stdlib/main.go
/usr/share/licenses/gocomplete
/usr/share/licenses/gocomplete/LICENSE.txt

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Summary

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