How To Install rc on Fedora 34

rc is Re-implementation for Unix of the Plan 9 shell

Introduction

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

What is rc

Rc is a command interpreter for Plan 9 that provides similar facilities to UNIX’s Bourne shell, with some small additions and less idiosyncratic syntax. This is a re-implementation for Unix, by Byron Rakitzis, of the Plan 9 shell.

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

Install rc 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 rc using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install rc

Install rc 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 rc using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install rc

How To Uninstall rc on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove rc

rc Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/rc
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/fe
/usr/lib/.build-id/fe/f34078cc42391b772cbd77550a2fadd1f15429
/usr/share/doc/rc
/usr/share/doc/rc/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/rc/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/rc/EXAMPLES
/usr/share/doc/rc/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/rc/README
/usr/share/licenses/rc
/usr/share/licenses/rc/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/rc.1.gz

References

Summary

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