How To Install squirrel on Fedora 34

squirrel is High level imperative/OO programming language

Introduction

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

What is squirrel

Squirrel is a high level imperative/OO programming language, designed to be a powerful scripting tool that fits in the size, memory bandwidth, and real-time requirements of applications like games.

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

Install squirrel 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 squirrel using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install squirrel

Install squirrel 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 squirrel using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install squirrel

How To Uninstall squirrel on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove squirrel

squirrel Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/sq
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/01
/usr/lib/.build-id/01/00ad13a5452e6b08523380c73c2ad92b0c0765
/usr/share/doc/squirrel
/usr/share/doc/squirrel/COPYRIGHT
/usr/share/doc/squirrel/HISTORY
/usr/share/doc/squirrel/README

References

Summary

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