How To Install nex on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nex on Fedora 34.
What is nex
Nex is a lexer similar to Lex/Flex that of C code, (2) integrates with Go’s Yacc instead of YACC/Bison, (3) supports UTF-8, and (4) supports nested structural regular expressions.
We can use yum or dnf to install nex on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install nex.
Install nex 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 nex using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install nex
Install nex 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 nex using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install nex
How To Uninstall nex on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the nex package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove nex
nex Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/nex
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a5
/usr/lib/.build-id/a5/aabdd5455a980706059756a9a86b1b8590ac03
/usr/share/doc/nex
/usr/share/doc/nex/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/nex/README.asciidoc
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nex on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.