How To Install tweak on Fedora 34

tweak is An efficient hex editor

Introduction

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

What is `tweak`

Tweak is a hex editor. It allows you to edit a file at very low level, letting you see the full and exact binary contents of the file. It can be useful for modifying binary files such as executables, editing disk or CD images, debugging programs that generate binary file formats incorrectly, and many other things.

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

Install tweak 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 tweak using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install tweak

Install tweak 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 tweak using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install tweak

How To Uninstall tweak on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove tweak

tweak Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/tweak
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/e3
/usr/lib/.build-id/e3/2a84827c9ef48743ebbec6e4fcfcc65ee4587d
/usr/share/doc/tweak
/usr/share/doc/tweak/LICENCE
/usr/share/doc/tweak/btree.html
/usr/share/man/man1/tweak.1.gz

References

tweak website

Summary

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