How To Install nopaste on Fedora 34

nopaste is Access pastebins from the command line

Introduction

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

What is nopaste

This application lets you post text to pastebins from the command line. Pastebins (also known as nopaste sites) let you post text, usually code, for public viewing. They’re used a lot in IRC channels to show code that would normally be too long to give directly in the channel (hence the name nopaste).

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

Install nopaste 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 nopaste using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install nopaste

Install nopaste 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 nopaste using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install nopaste

How To Uninstall nopaste on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove nopaste

nopaste Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/nopaste
/usr/share/man/man1/nopaste.1.gz

References

Summary

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