How To Install visidata on Fedora 34

visidata is Terminal interface for exploring and arranging tabular data

Introduction

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

What is visidata

VisiData is an interactive multitool for tabular data. It combines the clarity of a spreadsheet, the efficiency of the terminal, and the power of Python, into a lightweight utility which can handle millions of rows with ease.

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

Install visidata 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 visidata using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install visidata

Install visidata 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 visidata using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install visidata

How To Uninstall visidata on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove visidata

visidata Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/vd
/usr/bin/visidata
/usr/share/man/man1/vd.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/visidata.1.gz

References

Summary

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