How To Install vis on Fedora 34

vis is A vim-like editor with structural regex from plan9

Introduction

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

What is vis

A Vim-like editor with structural regular expressions inspired by Plan9’s Sam-editor.

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

Install vis 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 vis using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install vis

Install vis 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 vis using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install vis

How To Uninstall vis on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove vis

vis Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/vis
/usr/bin/vis-clipboard
/usr/bin/vis-complete
/usr/bin/vis-digraph
/usr/bin/vis-menu
/usr/bin/vis-open
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/53
/usr/lib/.build-id/53/646babee891bba1b4030afa9b87b25b0306298
/usr/lib/.build-id/86
/usr/lib/.build-id/86/ea9a7c1e2a1d000d1cc3374eb9642a2c4ecdac
/usr/lib/.build-id/e9
/usr/lib/.build-id/e9/d6911e4cc5335e2cbb6603328006f624eceb4a
/usr/share/doc/vis
/usr/share/doc/vis/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/vis
/usr/share/licenses/vis/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/vis-clipboard.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/vis-complete.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/vis-digraph.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/vis-menu.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/vis-open.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/vis.1.gz
/usr/share/vis
/usr/share/vis/lexer.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers
/usr/share/vis/lexers/LICENSE
/usr/share/vis/lexers/README.md
/usr/share/vis/lexers/actionscript.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/ada.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/ansi_c.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/antlr.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/apdl.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/apl.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/applescript.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/asm.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/asp.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/autoit.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/awk.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/bash.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/batch.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/bibtex.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/boo.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/caml.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/chuck.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/clojure.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/cmake.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/coffeescript.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/container.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/context.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/cpp.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/crystal.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/csharp.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/css.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/cuda.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/dart.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/desktop.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/diff.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/django.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/dmd.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/dockerfile.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/dot.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/dsv.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/eiffel.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/elixir.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/elm.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/erlang.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/fantom.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/faust.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/fennel.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/fish.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/forth.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/fortran.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/fsharp.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/fstab.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/gap.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/gemini.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/gettext.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/gherkin.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/git-rebase.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/glsl.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/gnuplot.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/go.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/groovy.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/gtkrc.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/haskell.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/html.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/icon.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/idl.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/inform.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/ini.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/io_lang.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/java.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/javascript.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/json.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/jsp.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/julia.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/latex.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/ledger.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/less.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/lexer.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/lilypond.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/lisp.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/litcoffee.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/logtalk.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/lua.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/makefile.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/man.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/markdown.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/matlab.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/meson.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/moonscript.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/myrddin.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/nemerle.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/networkd.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/nim.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/nsis.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/null.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/objective_c.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/pascal.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/perl.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/php.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/pico8.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/pike.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/pkgbuild.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/pony.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/powershell.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/prolog.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/props.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/protobuf.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/ps.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/pure.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/python.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/rails.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/rc.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/reason.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/rebol.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/rest.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/rexx.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/rhtml.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/routeros.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/rstats.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/ruby.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/rust.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/sass.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/scala.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/scheme.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/smalltalk.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/sml.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/snobol4.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/spin.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/sql.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/strace.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/systemd.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/taskpaper.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/tcl.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/tex.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/texinfo.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/text.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/toml.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/vala.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/vb.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/vbscript.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/vcard.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/verilog.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/vhdl.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/wsf.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/xml.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/xs.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/xtend.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/yaml.lua
/usr/share/vis/lexers/zig.lua
/usr/share/vis/plugins
/usr/share/vis/plugins/complete-filename.lua
/usr/share/vis/plugins/complete-word.lua
/usr/share/vis/plugins/digraph.lua
/usr/share/vis/plugins/filetype.lua
/usr/share/vis/plugins/number-inc-dec.lua
/usr/share/vis/plugins/textobject-lexer.lua
/usr/share/vis/themes
/usr/share/vis/themes/dark-16.lua
/usr/share/vis/themes/default-16.lua
/usr/share/vis/themes/default-256.lua
/usr/share/vis/themes/light-16.lua
/usr/share/vis/themes/solarized.lua
/usr/share/vis/themes/zenburn.lua
/usr/share/vis/vis-std.lua
/usr/share/vis/vis.lua
/usr/share/vis/visrc.lua

References

Summary

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