How To Install sshrc on Fedora 34

sshrc is Bring your bash and vim configuration in your ssh session

Introduction

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

What is sshrc

You can use this to set environment variables, define functions, and run post-login commands. This is quite useful when you have several servers that you don’t want to configure independently.

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

Install sshrc 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 sshrc using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install sshrc

Install sshrc 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 sshrc using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install sshrc

How To Uninstall sshrc on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove sshrc

sshrc Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/moshrc
/usr/bin/sshrc
/usr/share/doc/sshrc
/usr/share/doc/sshrc/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/sshrc
/usr/share/licenses/sshrc/LICENSE

References

Summary

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