How To Install wf on Fedora 34

wf is Simple word frequency counter

Introduction

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

What is wf

wf scans a text file and counts the frequency of words through the whole text.

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

Install wf 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 wf using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install wf

Install wf 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 wf using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install wf

How To Uninstall wf on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove wf

wf Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/wf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/3e
/usr/lib/.build-id/3e/bd399519cb803ebc80b08740c2803926cfebdd
/usr/share/doc/wf
/usr/share/doc/wf/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/wf/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/wf/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/wf/README
/usr/share/doc/wf/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/wf
/usr/share/licenses/wf/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/wf.1.gz

References

Summary

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