How To Install vimpal on Fedora 34

vimpal is Separate application providing a file tree for VIM

Introduction

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

What is vimpal

Simple and small application that can be used to select the files you want to edit in Vim.

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

Install vimpal 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 vimpal using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install vimpal

Install vimpal 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 vimpal using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install vimpal

How To Uninstall vimpal on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove vimpal

vimpal Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/vimpal
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6c
/usr/lib/.build-id/6c/003be27b69e926c6c04b72337d5ca9da64fa1c
/usr/share/applications/vimpal.desktop
/usr/share/doc/vimpal
/usr/share/doc/vimpal/README
/usr/share/doc/vimpal/gpl.txt
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/vimpal.png

References

Summary

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