How To Install gron on Fedora 34

gron is Make JSON greppable

Introduction

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

What is gron

gron transforms JSON into discrete assignments to make it easier to grep for what you want and see the absolute ‘path’ to it. It eases the exploration of APIs that return large blobs of JSON.

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

Install gron 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 gron using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gron

Install gron 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 gron using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gron

How To Uninstall gron on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove gron

gron Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/gron
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/78
/usr/lib/.build-id/78/7b99ca84721579f9acc22ba835abd449d91a78
/usr/share/doc/gron
/usr/share/doc/gron/CHANGELOG.mkd
/usr/share/doc/gron/README.mkd
/usr/share/doc/gron/docs
/usr/share/doc/gron/docs/images
/usr/share/doc/gron/docs/images/bareword.png
/usr/share/doc/gron/docs/images/input.png
/usr/share/doc/gron/docs/images/key.png
/usr/share/doc/gron/docs/images/path.png
/usr/share/doc/gron/docs/images/statement.png
/usr/share/doc/gron/docs/images/string.png
/usr/share/doc/gron/docs/images/unescapedrune.png
/usr/share/doc/gron/docs/images/value.png
/usr/share/doc/gron/docs/index.html
/usr/share/licenses/gron
/usr/share/licenses/gron/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/gron.1.gz

References

Summary

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