How To Install howl on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install howl on Fedora 34.
What is howl
Howl is a general purpose editor that aims to be both lightweight and fully customizable. It’s built on top of the very fast LuaJIT runtime, uses Gtk for its interface, and can be extended in either Lua or Moonscript. It’s known to work on Linux, but should work on at least the *BSD’s as well.
We can use yum or dnf to install howl on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install howl.
Install howl 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 howl using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install howl
Install howl 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 howl using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install howl
How To Uninstall howl on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the howl package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove howl
howl Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/howl
/usr/bin/howl-spec
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/67
/usr/lib/.build-id/67/5bff7e03bb11f2b663c2c943a7868baeeca3e3
/usr/share/applications/howl.desktop
/usr/share/doc/howl
/usr/share/doc/howl/Changelog.md
/usr/share/doc/howl/README.md
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/howl.svg
/usr/share/licenses/howl
/usr/share/licenses/howl/LICENSE.md
/usr/share/metainfo/howl.appdata.xml
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install howl on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
