How To Install poke on Fedora 34

poke is Extensible editor for structured binary data

Introduction

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

What is poke

GNU poke is an interactive, extensible editor for binary data. Not limited to editing basic entities such as bits and bytes, it provides a full-fledged procedural, interactive programming language designed to describe data structures and to operate on them.

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

Install poke 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 poke using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install poke

Install poke 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 poke using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install poke

How To Uninstall poke on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove poke

poke Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/pk-elfextractor
/usr/bin/poke
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/e1
/usr/lib/.build-id/e1/8226a919af234823ad62c0736244539d581186
/usr/share/doc/poke
/usr/share/doc/poke/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/poke/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/poke/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/poke/README
/usr/share/doc/poke/TODO
/usr/share/info/poke.info-1.gz
/usr/share/info/poke.info-2.gz
/usr/share/info/poke.info.gz
/usr/share/licenses/poke
/usr/share/licenses/poke/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/poke.1.gz

References

Summary

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