How To Install info on Fedora 34

info is A stand-alone TTY-based reader for GNU texinfo documentation

Introduction

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

What is info

The GNU project uses the texinfo file format for much of its documentation. The info package provides a standalone TTY-based browser program for viewing texinfo files.

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

Install info 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 info using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install info

Install info 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 info using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install info

How To Uninstall info on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove info

info Package Contents on Fedora 34

/sbin/install-info
/usr/bin/info
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/55
/usr/lib/.build-id/55/cce77e3dcfa547fc97c44ce47bba95b544175c
/usr/lib/.build-id/97
/usr/lib/.build-id/97/5263ba426e9cc567b7fb5c67ba26ca72c0988a
/usr/sbin/fix-info-dir
/usr/share/info/dir
/usr/share/info/dir.old
/usr/share/info/info-stnd.info.gz
/usr/share/licenses/info
/usr/share/licenses/info/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/info.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/install-info.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/info.5.gz

References

Summary

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