How To Install lscolors on Fedora 34

lscolors is Colorize paths using the LS_COLORS environment variable

Introduction

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

What is lscolors

Colorize paths using the LS_COLORS environment variable.

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

Install lscolors 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 lscolors using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install lscolors

Install lscolors 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 lscolors using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install lscolors

How To Uninstall lscolors on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove lscolors

lscolors Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/lscolors
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f9
/usr/lib/.build-id/f9/4dbe165e31bcd965807b0348da5a533ca5c49e
/usr/share/doc/lscolors
/usr/share/doc/lscolors/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/lscolors
/usr/share/licenses/lscolors/LICENSE-APACHE
/usr/share/licenses/lscolors/LICENSE-MIT

References

Summary

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