How To Install hexer on Fedora 34

hexer is Interactive binary editor

Introduction

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

What is hexer

Hexer is an interactive binary editor (also known as a hex-editor) with a Vi-like interface. Its most important features are multiple buffers, multiple-level undo, command-line editing with completion, and binary regular expressions.

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

Install hexer 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 hexer using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install hexer

Install hexer 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 hexer using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install hexer

How To Uninstall hexer on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove hexer

hexer Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/hexer
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/63
/usr/lib/.build-id/63/3b48fca46faa0b59166909c3341d80c035a565
/usr/share/doc/hexer
/usr/share/doc/hexer/README
/usr/share/licenses/hexer
/usr/share/licenses/hexer/COPYRIGHT
/usr/share/man/man1/hexer.1.gz

References

Summary

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