How To Install shc on Fedora 34

shc is Shell script compiler

Introduction

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

What is shc

SHC is a generic shell script compiler. It takes a script, which is specified on the command line and produces C source code. The generated source code is then compiled and linked to produce a s- tripped binary.

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

Install shc 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 shc using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install shc

Install shc 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 shc using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install shc

How To Uninstall shc on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove shc

shc Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/shc
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b6
/usr/lib/.build-id/b6/0ac7bd906f3769507f76ac02c9a94016f3d337
/usr/share/doc/shc
/usr/share/doc/shc/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/shc/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/shc/README
/usr/share/doc/shc/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/shc
/usr/share/licenses/shc/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/shc.1.gz

References

Summary

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