How To Install symlinks on Fedora 34

symlinks is A utility which maintains a system’s symbolic links

Introduction

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

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.

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

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

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

sudo dnf remove symlinks

/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.