How To Install vex on Fedora 34

vex is Run commands in a virtualenv

Introduction

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

What is `vex`

Vex is an alternative to virtualenv’s ‘source wherever/bin/activate’ and deactivate, and virtualenvwrapper’s workon, and also virtualenv-burrito if you use that. It works in a more elegant way, though it does less. You might find it nicer to use. And it works with non-bash shells.

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

Install vex 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 vex using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install vex

Install vex 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 vex using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install vex

How To Uninstall vex on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove vex

vex Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/vex
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/vex
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/vex-0.0.19-py3.9.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/vex-0.0.19-py3.9.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/vex-0.0.19-py3.9.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/vex-0.0.19-py3.9.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/vex-0.0.19-py3.9.egg-info/entry_points.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/vex-0.0.19-py3.9.egg-info/requires.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/vex-0.0.19-py3.9.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/vex/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/vex/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/vex/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/vex/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/vex/__pycache__/_version.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/vex/__pycache__/_version.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/vex/__pycache__/config.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/vex/__pycache__/config.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/vex/__pycache__/exceptions.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/vex/__pycache__/exceptions.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/vex/__pycache__/main.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/vex/__pycache__/main.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/vex/__pycache__/make.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/vex/__pycache__/make.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/vex/__pycache__/options.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/vex/__pycache__/options.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/vex/__pycache__/remove.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/vex/__pycache__/remove.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/vex/__pycache__/run.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/vex/__pycache__/run.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/vex/__pycache__/shell_config.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/vex/__pycache__/shell_config.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/vex/_version.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/vex/config.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/vex/exceptions.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/vex/functional_tests
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/vex/functional_tests/not_python
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/vex/main.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/vex/make.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/vex/options.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/vex/remove.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/vex/run.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/vex/shell_config.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/vex/shell_configs
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/vex/shell_configs/bash
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/vex/shell_configs/fish
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/vex/shell_configs/zsh
/usr/share/doc/vex
/usr/share/doc/vex/README.rst
/usr/share/licenses/vex
/usr/share/licenses/vex/LICENSE

References

vex website

Summary

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