How To Install task on Fedora 34

task is Taskwarrior - a command-line TODO list manager

Introduction

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

What is task

Taskwarrior is a command-line TODO list manager. It is flexible, fast, efficient, unobtrusive, does its job then gets out of your way. Taskwarrior scales to fit your workflow. Use it as a simple app that captures tasks, shows you the list, and removes tasks from that list. Leverage its capabilities though, and it becomes a sophisticated data query tool that can help you stay organized, and get through your work.

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

Install task 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 task using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install task

Install task 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 task using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install task

How To Uninstall task on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove task

task Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/task
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/35
/usr/lib/.build-id/35/30689d2cbabb196cc41c6d61697cb15afbb190
/usr/share/bash-completion
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/task
/usr/share/doc/task
/usr/share/doc/task/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/task/hooks
/usr/share/doc/task/hooks/README
/usr/share/doc/task/hooks/on-add
/usr/share/doc/task/hooks/on-add.the
/usr/share/doc/task/hooks/on-exit
/usr/share/doc/task/hooks/on-exit.shadow-file
/usr/share/doc/task/hooks/on-launch
/usr/share/doc/task/hooks/on-modify
/usr/share/doc/task/task-ref.pdf
/usr/share/doc/task/vim
/usr/share/doc/task/vim/README
/usr/share/doc/task/vim/ftdetect
/usr/share/doc/task/vim/ftdetect/task.vim
/usr/share/doc/task/vim/syntax
/usr/share/doc/task/vim/syntax/taskdata.vim
/usr/share/doc/task/vim/syntax/taskedit.vim
/usr/share/doc/task/vim/syntax/taskrc.vim
/usr/share/fish
/usr/share/fish/completions
/usr/share/fish/completions/task.fish
/usr/share/licenses/task
/usr/share/licenses/task/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/task.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/task-color.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/task-sync.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/taskrc.5.gz
/usr/share/task
/usr/share/task/dark-16.theme
/usr/share/task/dark-256.theme
/usr/share/task/dark-blue-256.theme
/usr/share/task/dark-gray-256.theme
/usr/share/task/dark-gray-blue-256.theme
/usr/share/task/dark-green-256.theme
/usr/share/task/dark-red-256.theme
/usr/share/task/dark-violets-256.theme
/usr/share/task/dark-yellow-green.theme
/usr/share/task/holidays.cs-CZ.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.da-DK.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.de-AT.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.de-BE.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.de-CH.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.de-DE.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.el-GR.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.en-CA.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.en-GB.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.en-NZ.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.en-US.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.es-CO.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.es-ES.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.es-US.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.fi-FI.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.fr-BE.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.fr-FR.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.hr-HR.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.is-IS.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.it-IT.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.nb-NO.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.nl-BE.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.nl-NL.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.pl-PL.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.por-PRT.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.pt-PT.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.ru-RU.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.sv-SE.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.tr-TR.rc
/usr/share/task/light-16.theme
/usr/share/task/light-256.theme
/usr/share/task/no-color.theme
/usr/share/task/solarized-dark-256.theme
/usr/share/task/solarized-light-256.theme
/usr/share/zsh
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_task
/usr/bin/task
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ae
/usr/lib/.build-id/ae/d4fe1a32d4c55646a441895cbe78b0173de634
/usr/share/bash-completion
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/task
/usr/share/doc/task
/usr/share/doc/task/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/task/hooks
/usr/share/doc/task/hooks/README
/usr/share/doc/task/hooks/on-add
/usr/share/doc/task/hooks/on-add.the
/usr/share/doc/task/hooks/on-exit
/usr/share/doc/task/hooks/on-exit.shadow-file
/usr/share/doc/task/hooks/on-launch
/usr/share/doc/task/hooks/on-modify
/usr/share/doc/task/task-ref.pdf
/usr/share/doc/task/vim
/usr/share/doc/task/vim/README
/usr/share/doc/task/vim/ftdetect
/usr/share/doc/task/vim/ftdetect/task.vim
/usr/share/doc/task/vim/syntax
/usr/share/doc/task/vim/syntax/taskdata.vim
/usr/share/doc/task/vim/syntax/taskedit.vim
/usr/share/doc/task/vim/syntax/taskrc.vim
/usr/share/fish
/usr/share/fish/completions
/usr/share/fish/completions/task.fish
/usr/share/licenses/task
/usr/share/licenses/task/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/task.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/task-color.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/task-sync.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/taskrc.5.gz
/usr/share/task
/usr/share/task/dark-16.theme
/usr/share/task/dark-256.theme
/usr/share/task/dark-blue-256.theme
/usr/share/task/dark-gray-256.theme
/usr/share/task/dark-gray-blue-256.theme
/usr/share/task/dark-green-256.theme
/usr/share/task/dark-red-256.theme
/usr/share/task/dark-violets-256.theme
/usr/share/task/dark-yellow-green.theme
/usr/share/task/holidays.be-BY.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.cs-CZ.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.da-DK.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.de-AT.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.de-BE.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.de-CH.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.de-DE.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.el-GR.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.en-AU.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.en-CA.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.en-GB.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.en-GL.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.en-HK.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.en-IN.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.en-NZ.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.en-US.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.en-ZA.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.es-CO.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.es-EC.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.es-ES.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.es-MX.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.es-US.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.et-EE.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.fi-FI.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.fr-BE.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.fr-FR.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.ga-IE.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.hr-HR.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.is-IS.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.it-IT.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.jp-JP.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.lt-LT.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.lv-LV.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.nb-NO.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.nb-SJ.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.nl-BE.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.nl-NL.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.pl-PL.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.por-PRT.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.pt-BR.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.pt-PT.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.ru-RU.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.sv-SE.rc
/usr/share/task/holidays.tr-TR.rc
/usr/share/task/light-16.theme
/usr/share/task/light-256.theme
/usr/share/task/no-color.theme
/usr/share/task/solarized-dark-256.theme
/usr/share/task/solarized-light-256.theme
/usr/share/zsh
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_task

References

Summary

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