How To Install starship on Fedora 34

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Introduction

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

What is starship

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

Install starship 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 starship using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install starship

Install starship 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 starship using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install starship

How To Uninstall starship on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove starship

starship Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/starship
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/12
/usr/lib/.build-id/12/9bb2eb9fcf4fb6b29a6a87defa0f4e1b62e86e
/usr/share/doc/starship
/usr/share/doc/starship/CONTRIBUTING.md
/usr/share/doc/starship/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/starship
/usr/share/licenses/starship/LICENSE
/usr/bin/starship
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2c
/usr/lib/.build-id/2c/23f1fc45f87013d1fac6e1c177adc5bfc11533
/usr/share/doc/starship
/usr/share/doc/starship/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/starship
/usr/share/licenses/starship/LICENSE

References

Summary

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