How To Install lv on Fedora 34

lv is A Powerful Multilingual File Viewer

Introduction

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

What is lv

lv is a powerful file viewer like less. lv can decode and encode multilingual streams through many coding systems HZ, Unicode. It recognizes multi-bytes patterns as regular expressions, lv also provides multilingual grep. In addition, lv can recognize ANSI escape sequences for text decoration.

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

Install lv 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 lv using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install lv

Install lv 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 lv using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install lv

How To Uninstall lv on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove lv

lv Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/lgrep
/usr/bin/lv
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/01
/usr/lib/.build-id/01/6c9cca58dda1f5e880708017394a8c0e1205d9
/usr/lib/.build-id/01/6c9cca58dda1f5e880708017394a8c0e1205d9.1
/usr/lib64/lv
/usr/lib64/lv/lv.hlp
/usr/share/doc/lv
/usr/share/doc/lv/README
/usr/share/doc/lv/build
/usr/share/doc/lv/build/README
/usr/share/doc/lv/hello.sample
/usr/share/doc/lv/hello.sample.gif
/usr/share/doc/lv/index.html
/usr/share/doc/lv/relnote.html
/usr/share/licenses/lv
/usr/share/licenses/lv/GPL.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/lv.1.gz

References

Summary

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