How To Install rcm on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rcm on Fedora 34.
What is rcm
A suite of tools for managing dot-files (.zshrc, .vimrc, etc.). This suite is useful for committing your .*rc files to a central repository to share, but it also scales to a more complex situation such as multiple source directories shared between computers with some host-specific or task-specific files.
We can use yum or dnf to install rcm on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rcm.
Install rcm 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 rcm using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install rcm
Install rcm 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 rcm using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install rcm
How To Uninstall rcm on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the rcm package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove rcm
rcm Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/lsrc
/usr/bin/mkrc
/usr/bin/rcdn
/usr/bin/rcup
/usr/share/doc/rcm
/usr/share/doc/rcm/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/rcm
/usr/share/licenses/rcm/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/lsrc.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/mkrc.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rcdn.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rcup.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/rcrc.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/rcm.7.gz
/usr/share/rcm
/usr/share/rcm/rcm.sh
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rcm on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.