How To Install qhexedit2 on Fedora 34

qhexedit2 is Binary Editor for Qt

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install qhexedit2 on Fedora 34.

What is `qhexedit2`

QHexEdit is a hex editor widget written in C++ for the Qt framework. It is a simple editor for binary data, just like QPlainTextEdit is for text data.

We can use yum or dnf to install qhexedit2 on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install qhexedit2.

Install qhexedit2 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 qhexedit2 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install qhexedit2

Install qhexedit2 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 qhexedit2 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install qhexedit2

How To Uninstall qhexedit2 on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the qhexedit2 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove qhexedit2

qhexedit2 Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/qhexedit
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/06
/usr/lib/.build-id/06/8d357ceb1695d256d179e935b25f04ff8ca067
/usr/share/applications/qhexedit.desktop

References

qhexedit2 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install qhexedit2 on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.