How To Install shunit2 on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install shunit2 on Fedora 34.
What is shunit2
shUnit2 is a xUnit unit test framework for Bourne based shell scripts, and it is designed to work in a similar manner to JUnit, PyUnit, etc. If you have ever had the desire to write a unit test for a shell script, shUnit2 can do the job.
We can use yum or dnf to install shunit2 on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install shunit2.
Install shunit2 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 shunit2 using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install shunit2
Install shunit2 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 shunit2 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install shunit2
How To Uninstall shunit2 on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the shunit2 package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove shunit2
shunit2 Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/share/doc/shunit2
/usr/share/doc/shunit2/CHANGES-2.1.txt
/usr/share/doc/shunit2/LGPL-2.1
/usr/share/doc/shunit2/README.txt
/usr/share/doc/shunit2/RELEASE_NOTES-2.1.6.txt
/usr/share/doc/shunit2/TODO.txt
/usr/share/doc/shunit2/coding_standards.txt
/usr/share/doc/shunit2/contributors.txt
/usr/share/doc/shunit2/design_doc.txt
/usr/share/doc/shunit2/examples
/usr/share/doc/shunit2/examples/equality_test.sh
/usr/share/doc/shunit2/examples/lineno_test.sh
/usr/share/doc/shunit2/examples/math.inc
/usr/share/doc/shunit2/examples/math_test.sh
/usr/share/doc/shunit2/examples/mkdir_test.sh
/usr/share/doc/shunit2/examples/party_test.sh
/usr/share/doc/shunit2/shunit2.txt
/usr/share/shunit2
/usr/share/shunit2/shunit2
/usr/share/shunit2/shunit2_test_helpers
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install shunit2 on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.