How To Install kawa on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install kawa on Fedora 34.
What is kawa
Kawa is an implementation of the Scheme programming language. It is implemented in Java, and compiles Scheme into Java byte-codes. It also includes an XQuery implementation, accessible via the qexo script.
We can use yum or dnf to install kawa on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install kawa.
Install kawa 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 kawa using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install kawa
Install kawa 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 kawa using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install kawa
How To Uninstall kawa on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the kawa package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove kawa
kawa Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/cgi-servlet
/usr/bin/kawa
/usr/bin/qexo
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/39
/usr/lib/.build-id/39/191595d1179eaec778945025bc3dbf1a6d3bb7
/usr/lib/.build-id/85
/usr/lib/.build-id/85/e5328843ee1eef1b9c06c8ce1479c39965cc06
/usr/share/doc/kawa
/usr/share/doc/kawa/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/kawa/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/kawa/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/kawa/TODO
/usr/share/info/kawa.info-1.gz
/usr/share/info/kawa.info-2.gz
/usr/share/info/kawa.info-3.gz
/usr/share/info/kawa.info-4.gz
/usr/share/info/kawa.info.gz
/usr/share/java/kawa.jar
/usr/share/kawa/lib/kawa.jar
/usr/share/kawa/lib/servlet.jar
/usr/share/licenses/kawa
/usr/share/licenses/kawa/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/kawa.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/qexo.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install kawa on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.