How To Install nant on Fedora 34

nant is NAnt is a build tool for Mono and .NET

Introduction

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

What is nant

NAnt is a free .NET build tool. In theory it is kind of like make without make’s wrinkles. In practice it’s a lot like Ant.

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

Install nant 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 nant using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install nant

Install nant 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 nant using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install nant

How To Uninstall nant on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove nant

nant Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/nant
/usr/lib/NAnt
/usr/lib/NAnt/bin
/usr/lib/NAnt/bin/NAnt.CompressionTasks.dll
/usr/lib/NAnt/bin/NAnt.CompressionTasks.dll.mdb
/usr/lib/NAnt/bin/NAnt.CompressionTasks.xml
/usr/lib/NAnt/bin/NAnt.Core.dll
/usr/lib/NAnt/bin/NAnt.Core.dll.mdb
/usr/lib/NAnt/bin/NAnt.Core.xml
/usr/lib/NAnt/bin/NAnt.DotNetTasks.dll
/usr/lib/NAnt/bin/NAnt.DotNetTasks.dll.mdb
/usr/lib/NAnt/bin/NAnt.DotNetTasks.xml
/usr/lib/NAnt/bin/NAnt.NUnit.dll
/usr/lib/NAnt/bin/NAnt.NUnit.dll.mdb
/usr/lib/NAnt/bin/NAnt.NUnit.xml
/usr/lib/NAnt/bin/NAnt.NUnit2Tasks.dll
/usr/lib/NAnt/bin/NAnt.NUnit2Tasks.dll.mdb
/usr/lib/NAnt/bin/NAnt.NUnit2Tasks.xml
/usr/lib/NAnt/bin/NAnt.VSNetTasks.dll
/usr/lib/NAnt/bin/NAnt.VSNetTasks.dll.mdb
/usr/lib/NAnt/bin/NAnt.VSNetTasks.xml
/usr/lib/NAnt/bin/NAnt.VisualCppTasks.dll
/usr/lib/NAnt/bin/NAnt.VisualCppTasks.dll.mdb
/usr/lib/NAnt/bin/NAnt.VisualCppTasks.xml
/usr/lib/NAnt/bin/NAnt.Win32Tasks.dll
/usr/lib/NAnt/bin/NAnt.Win32Tasks.dll.mdb
/usr/lib/NAnt/bin/NAnt.Win32Tasks.xml
/usr/lib/NAnt/bin/NAnt.exe
/usr/lib/NAnt/bin/NAnt.exe.config
/usr/lib/NAnt/bin/NAnt.exe.mdb
/usr/lib/NAnt/bin/NAnt.xml
/usr/share/doc/nant
/usr/share/doc/nant/README.txt
/usr/share/doc/nant/license.html
/usr/share/doc/nant/releasenotes.html
/usr/share/licenses/nant
/usr/share/licenses/nant/COPYING.txt

References

Summary

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