How To Install jid on Fedora 34

jid is JSON incremental digger

Introduction

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

What is jid

JSON Incremental Digger is a very simple JSON querying tool. You can drill down JSON interactively by using filtering queries like jq.

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

Install jid 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 jid using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install jid

Install jid 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 jid using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install jid

How To Uninstall jid on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove jid

jid Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/jid
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/74
/usr/lib/.build-id/74/bb59925c8c9425daf08f304d02cd8de9c9cd2e
/usr/share/doc/jid
/usr/share/doc/jid/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/jid/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/jid
/usr/share/licenses/jid/LICENSE

References

Summary

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