How To Install rpl on Fedora 34

rpl is Intelligent recursive search/replace utility

Introduction

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

What is rpl

rpl is a UN*X text replacement utility. It will replace strings with new strings in multiple text files. It can work recursively over directories and supports limiting the search to specific file suffixes. rpl was originally written by Joe Laffey; this is a rewritten version.

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

Install rpl 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 rpl using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install rpl

Install rpl 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 rpl using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install rpl

How To Uninstall rpl on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove rpl

rpl Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/rpl
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/rpl-1.5.7-py3.9.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/rpl-1.5.7-py3.9.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/rpl-1.5.7-py3.9.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/rpl-1.5.7-py3.9.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/rpl-1.5.7-py3.9.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/share/doc/rpl
/usr/share/doc/rpl/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/rpl/README.md
/usr/share/man/man1/rpl.1.gz

References

Summary

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