How To Install jq on Fedora 34

jq is Command-line JSON processor Command-line JSON processor

Introduction

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

What is `jq`

lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor jq is like sed for JSON data – you can use it to slice and filter and map and transform structured data with the same ease that sed, awk, grep and friends let you play with text. It is written in portable C, and it has zero runtime dependencies. jq can mangle the data format that you have into the one that you want with very little effort, and the program to do so is often shorter and simpler than you’d expect. jq 1.6 7.fc34 x86_64 179 k jq-1.6-7.fc34.src.rpm fedora Command-line JSON processor http MIT and ASL 2.0 and CC-BY and GPLv3 lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor jq is like sed for JSON data – you can use it to slice and filter and map and transform structured data with the same ease that sed, awk, grep and friends let you play with text. It is written in portable C, and it has zero runtime dependencies. jq can mangle the data format that you have into the one that you want with very little effort, and the program to do so is often shorter and simpler than you’d expect.

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

Install jq 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 jq using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install jq

Install jq 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 jq using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install jq

How To Uninstall jq on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove jq

jq Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/jq
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/25
/usr/lib/.build-id/25/e76174e124e299ee3c97382ee27a50bf53f9ba
/usr/lib/.build-id/fc
/usr/lib/.build-id/fc/21f031151f2197feaf429665cb478c319db015
/usr/lib64/libjq.so.1
/usr/lib64/libjq.so.1.0.4
/usr/share/doc/jq/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/jq/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/jq/README
/usr/share/doc/jq/README.md
/usr/share/man/man1/jq.1.gz
/usr/bin/jq
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a4
/usr/lib/.build-id/a4/6514a35ed1288e785401293846d9fdb27d6cc6
/usr/lib/.build-id/ed
/usr/lib/.build-id/ed/67f3a10f5e82f3c37eb7bc0c05702aed1dd3f4
/usr/lib/libjq.so.1
/usr/lib/libjq.so.1.0.4
/usr/share/doc/jq/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/jq/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/jq/README
/usr/share/doc/jq/README.md
/usr/share/man/man1/jq.1.gz

References

[jq website](http://stedolan.github.io/jq/ http://stedolan.github.io/jq/)

Summary

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