How To Install hexedit on Fedora 34

hexedit is A hexadecimal file viewer and editor

Introduction

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

What is hexedit

Hexedit shows a file both in ASCII and in hexadecimal. The file can be a device as the file is read a piece at a time. Hexedit can be used to modify the file and search through it.

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

Install hexedit 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 hexedit using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install hexedit

Install hexedit 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 hexedit using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install hexedit

How To Uninstall hexedit on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove hexedit

hexedit Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/hexedit
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c8
/usr/lib/.build-id/c8/b4af3c746cb49101fe92641ce68ccc9ba082bb
/usr/share/doc/hexedit
/usr/share/doc/hexedit/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/hexedit/Changes
/usr/share/doc/hexedit/hexedit.lsm
/usr/share/man/man1/hexedit.1.gz

References

Summary

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