How To Install silver on Fedora 34

silver is Cross-shell customizable powerline-like prompt with icons

Introduction

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

What is silver

Cross-shell customizable powerline-like prompt with icons.

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

Install silver 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 silver using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install silver

Install silver 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 silver using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install silver

How To Uninstall silver on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove silver

silver Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/silver
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/44
/usr/lib/.build-id/44/34816bd7a0118ca7caa5dcd7b71e4f5d477a03
/usr/share/doc/silver
/usr/share/doc/silver/readme.md
/usr/share/licenses/silver
/usr/share/licenses/silver/unlicense
/usr/bin/silver
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/8f
/usr/lib/.build-id/8f/f0ab1391877f06e7136524f15dd78b008945df
/usr/share/doc/silver
/usr/share/doc/silver/readme.md
/usr/share/licenses/silver
/usr/share/licenses/silver/unlicense

References

Summary

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