How To Install watchman on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install watchman on Fedora 34.
What is watchman
Watchman exists to watch files and record when they actually change. It can also trigger actions (such as rebuilding assets) when matching files change.
We can use yum or dnf to install watchman on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install watchman.
Install watchman 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 watchman using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install watchman
Install watchman 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 watchman using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install watchman
How To Uninstall watchman on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the watchman package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove watchman
watchman Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/watchman
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/93
/usr/lib/.build-id/93/8f94fe68a9c8471c10595712d4d0990ec54b99
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/watchman.conf
/usr/share/doc/watchman
/usr/share/doc/watchman/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
/usr/share/doc/watchman/README.markdown
/usr/share/licenses/watchman
/usr/share/licenses/watchman/LICENSE
/var/run/watchman
/usr/bin/watchman
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b0
/usr/lib/.build-id/b0/8303b15c34367de7ad4f6c3c36ec10690c98de
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/watchman.conf
/usr/share/doc/watchman
/usr/share/doc/watchman/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
/usr/share/doc/watchman/README.markdown
/usr/share/licenses/watchman
/usr/share/licenses/watchman/LICENSE
/var/run/watchman
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install watchman on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.