How To Install hxtools on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install hxtools on Fedora 34.
What is hxtools
hxtools contains several tools for different tasks written by Jan Engelhardt. Currently only these tools are included in Fedora * fd0ssh - Pipe for password-over-stdin support to ssh * git-forest - A text-based git tree visualizer * ofl - Open file lister (replaces fuser and lsof -m) * peicon - PE files icons extractor
We can use yum or dnf to install hxtools on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install hxtools.
Install hxtools 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 hxtools using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install hxtools
Install hxtools 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 hxtools using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install hxtools
How To Uninstall hxtools on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the hxtools package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove hxtools
hxtools Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/git-forest
/usr/bin/ofl
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/33
/usr/lib/.build-id/33/3ee3ff72cbaea6ce5397b808020b71eb392b1c
/usr/lib/.build-id/7c
/usr/lib/.build-id/7c/94fe2de097910bae236dee63e254b4ecea0dc7
/usr/lib/.build-id/9b
/usr/lib/.build-id/9b/e0849593f311ccaa3e76cf84a2da0fd09e9420
/usr/libexec/hxtools/fd0ssh
/usr/libexec/hxtools/peicon
/usr/share/doc/hxtools
/usr/share/doc/hxtools/LICENSES.txt
/usr/share/licenses/hxtools
/usr/share/licenses/hxtools/LICENSE.GPL2
/usr/share/licenses/hxtools/LICENSE.GPL3
/usr/share/licenses/hxtools/LICENSE.WTFPL
/usr/share/man/man1/fd0ssh.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/git-forest.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ofl.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/peicon.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install hxtools on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.