How To Install grin on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install grin on Fedora 34.
What is grin
grin is a similar in function to GNU grep, however it is has modified behaviour to make it simpler to use when grepping source code. Some features grin feature are * recurse directories by default * do not go into directories with specified names * do not search files with specified extensions * be able to show context lines before and after matched lines * Python regex syntax * unless suppressed via a command line option, display the filename regardless of the number of files * accept a file (or stdin) with a list of newline-separated filenames * grep through gzipped text files * be useful as a library to build custom tools quickly
We can use yum or dnf to install grin on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install grin.
Install grin 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 grin using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install grin
Install grin 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 grin using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install grin
How To Uninstall grin on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the grin package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove grin
grin Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/grin
/usr/bin/grind
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/__pycache__/grin.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/__pycache__/grin.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/grin-1.3.0-py3.9.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/grin-1.3.0-py3.9.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/grin-1.3.0-py3.9.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/grin-1.3.0-py3.9.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/grin-1.3.0-py3.9.egg-info/entry_points.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/grin-1.3.0-py3.9.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/grin.py
/usr/share/doc/grin
/usr/share/doc/grin/README.rst
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install grin on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.