How To Install mpage on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mpage on Fedora 34.
What is mpage
The mpage utility takes plain text files or PostScript(TM) documents as input, reduces the size of the text, and prints the files on a PostScript printer with several pages on each sheet of paper. Mpage is very useful for viewing large printouts without using up lots of paper. Mpage supports many different layout options for the printed pages.
We can use yum or dnf to install mpage on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mpage.
Install mpage 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 mpage using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install mpage
Install mpage 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 mpage using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install mpage
How To Uninstall mpage on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the mpage package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove mpage
mpage Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/mpage
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/74
/usr/lib/.build-id/74/e3166aefc3cebb6408788f4b38fa3d36ea081c
/usr/share/doc/mpage
/usr/share/doc/mpage/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/mpage/Copyright
/usr/share/doc/mpage/FAQ
/usr/share/doc/mpage/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/mpage/README
/usr/share/doc/mpage/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/mpage
/usr/share/licenses/mpage/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/mpage.1.gz
/usr/share/mpage
/usr/share/mpage/CP850.PC
/usr/share/mpage/ISO+STD+OTH
/usr/share/mpage/ISO-8859.1
/usr/share/mpage/ISO-8859.15
/usr/share/mpage/ISO-Latin.1
/usr/share/mpage/ISO-Latin.2
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mpage on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.