How To Install symlinks on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install symlinks
on Fedora 34.
What is symlinks
The symlinks utility performs maintenance on symbolic links. Symlinks checks for symlink problems, including dangling symlinks which point to nonexistent files. Symlinks can also automatically convert absolute symlinks to relative symlinks. Install the symlinks package if you need a program for maintaining symlinks on your system.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install symlinks
on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install symlinks.
Install symlinks 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 symlinks
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install symlinks
Install symlinks 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 symlinks
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install symlinks
How To Uninstall symlinks on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the symlinks
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove symlinks
symlinks Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/symlinks
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/8b
/usr/lib/.build-id/8b/26545529e8b83799ba73d5c46a2d8a76daec7b
/usr/share/doc/symlinks
/usr/share/doc/symlinks/symlinks-LICENSE.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/symlinks.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install symlinks
on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.