How To Install pem on Fedora 34

pem is Personal Expenses Manager

Introduction

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

What is pem

GNU Pem, is a personal expenses manager. Pem lets keep track of personal income and expense in an extremely elegant manner. On Linux like systems, Pem works by storing the details in a CSV file, placed in the ~/.pem directory under your $HOME directory; On Windows, the same file is placed in pem directory, under the USERPROFILE directory. Each such file is named after the current month, and is automatically created by Pem when you enter the first record for the month. It is not advisable to edit these files by hand.

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

Install pem 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 pem using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install pem

Install pem 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 pem using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install pem

How To Uninstall pem on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove pem

pem Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/pem
/usr/share/doc/pem
/usr/share/doc/pem/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/pem/README
/usr/share/info/pem.info.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pem.1.gz
/usr/share/pem/pem.txt

References

Summary

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