How To Install nyancat on Fedora 34

nyancat is Nyancat rendered in your terminal

Introduction

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

What is nyancat

Nyan Cat is the name of a YouTube video uploaded in April 2011, which became an internet meme. The video merged a Japanese pop song with an animated cartoon cat with a Pop-Tart for a torso, flying through space, and leaving a rainbow trail behind it.

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

Install nyancat 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 nyancat using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install nyancat

Install nyancat 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 nyancat using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install nyancat

How To Uninstall nyancat on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove nyancat

nyancat Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/nyancat
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/d4
/usr/lib/.build-id/d4/474949b8149dce5644a526833d73d728579c53
/usr/share/doc/nyancat
/usr/share/doc/nyancat/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/nyancat
/usr/share/licenses/nyancat/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/nyancat.1.gz

References

Summary

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