How To Install taarich on Fedora 34

taarich is Tells the Hebrew date, Torah readings, and generates calendars

Introduction

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

What is taarich

Taarich displays the current Hebrew date (in English or in Hebrew). When run with -h command line option, it prints the date in UTF8 Hebrew. Luach renders a calendar of the current Gregorian month, with Hebrew dates. Both use Gauss’s algorithm to find the Gregorian date of Passover.

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

Install taarich 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 taarich using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install taarich

Install taarich 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 taarich using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install taarich

How To Uninstall taarich on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove taarich

taarich Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/luach
/usr/bin/taarich
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/29
/usr/lib/.build-id/29/03b8f49e24448b000b781d9878e0752175f76b
/usr/lib/.build-id/9a
/usr/lib/.build-id/9a/763bf762909baf50c68f3984bbcc587cafe42f
/usr/share/doc/taarich
/usr/share/doc/taarich/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/taarich/gauss.txt
/usr/share/doc/taarich/reading.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/luach.man.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/taarich.man.gz

References

Summary

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