How To Install uread on Fedora 34

uread is Utilities for unformatted fortran files

Introduction

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

What is uread

These utilities enable you to have a look at a Fortran unformatted file to see the size of the data records, and to swap its endianess from big to little, or vis versa.

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

Install uread 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 uread using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install uread

Install uread 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 uread using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install uread

How To Uninstall uread on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove uread

uread Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/uread
/usr/bin/ustrip
/usr/bin/uswap
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/02
/usr/lib/.build-id/02/29cb59e19d80afe2c017854ea58abe151544ea
/usr/lib/.build-id/60
/usr/lib/.build-id/60/7fc021b9196e7dafaddc154ba4c414a1a46088
/usr/lib/.build-id/b6
/usr/lib/.build-id/b6/6c7923e0f120b7b6529953537ddc5dd73ca5f8
/usr/share/doc/uread
/usr/share/doc/uread/uread-licence.email
/usr/share/man/man1/uread.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ustrip.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/uswap.1.gz

References

Summary

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