How To Install hexyl on Fedora 34

hexyl is A command-line hex viewer

Introduction

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

What is hexyl

hexyl is a simple hex viewer for the terminal. It uses a colored output to distinguish different categories of bytes (NUL bytes, printable ASCII characters, ASCII whitespace characters, other ASCII characters and non-ASCII).

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

Install hexyl 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 hexyl using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install hexyl

Install hexyl 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 hexyl using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install hexyl

How To Uninstall hexyl on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove hexyl

hexyl Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/hexyl
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/de
/usr/lib/.build-id/de/7b3340d94db3cff8b61fe3b85ef4a7526bbe03
/usr/share/doc/hexyl
/usr/share/doc/hexyl/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/hexyl
/usr/share/licenses/hexyl/LICENSE-APACHE
/usr/share/licenses/hexyl/LICENSE-MIT

References

Summary

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