How To Install percol on Fedora 34

percol is Interactive selection to the traditional pipe concept on UNIX

Introduction

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

What is percol

percol is an interactive grep tool in your terminal. percol receives input lines from stdin or a file, lists up the input lines, waits for your input that filter/select the line(s), and finally outputs the selected line(s) to stdout. Since percol just filters the input and output the result to stdout, it can be used in command-chains with | in your shell (UNIX philosophy!).

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

Install percol 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 percol using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install percol

Install percol 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 percol using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install percol

How To Uninstall percol on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove percol

percol Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/percol
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/percol
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/percol-0.1.1-py3.9.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/percol-0.1.1-py3.9.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/percol-0.1.1-py3.9.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/percol-0.1.1-py3.9.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/percol-0.1.1-py3.9.egg-info/requires.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/percol-0.1.1-py3.9.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/percol/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/percol/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/percol/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/percol/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/percol/__pycache__/action.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/percol/__pycache__/action.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/percol/__pycache__/actions.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/percol/__pycache__/actions.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/percol/__pycache__/ansi.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/percol/__pycache__/ansi.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/percol/__pycache__/cli.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/percol/__pycache__/cli.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/percol/__pycache__/command.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/percol/__pycache__/command.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/percol/__pycache__/debug.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/percol/__pycache__/debug.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/percol/__pycache__/display.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/percol/__pycache__/display.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/percol/__pycache__/finder.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/percol/__pycache__/finder.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/percol/__pycache__/info.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/percol/__pycache__/info.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/percol/__pycache__/key.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/percol/__pycache__/key.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/percol/__pycache__/lazyarray.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/percol/__pycache__/lazyarray.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/percol/__pycache__/markup.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/percol/__pycache__/markup.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/percol/__pycache__/model.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/percol/__pycache__/model.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/percol/__pycache__/tty.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/percol/__pycache__/tty.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/percol/__pycache__/view.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/percol/__pycache__/view.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/percol/action.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/percol/actions.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/percol/ansi.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/percol/cli.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/percol/command.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/percol/debug.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/percol/display.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/percol/finder.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/percol/info.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/percol/key.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/percol/lazyarray.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/percol/markup.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/percol/model.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/percol/tty.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/percol/view.py
/usr/share/doc/percol
/usr/share/doc/percol/README.md

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Summary

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