How To Install oksh on Fedora 34

oksh is Portable OpenBSD ksh, based on the Public Domain Korn Shell

Introduction

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

What is oksh

Portable OpenBSD ksh, based on the Public Domain Korn Shell.

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

Install oksh 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 oksh using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install oksh

Install oksh 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 oksh using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install oksh

How To Uninstall oksh on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove oksh

oksh Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/ksh.kshrc
/usr/bin/oksh
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5d
/usr/lib/.build-id/5d/7f8212432c825f08189788347d9ee2f1780091
/usr/share/doc/oksh
/usr/share/doc/oksh/CONTRIBUTORS
/usr/share/doc/oksh/NOTES
/usr/share/doc/oksh/README.md
/usr/share/doc/oksh/README.pdksh
/usr/share/licenses/oksh
/usr/share/licenses/oksh/LEGAL
/usr/share/man/man1/oksh.1.gz

References

Summary

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