How To Install whereami on Fedora 34

whereami is Displays work location

Introduction

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

What is whereami

Whereami displays information about the machine(location) you are working on. Information like terminal name, present working directory, host name, and the host IP address. This is extremely useful for those who tend to work remotely on several machines at the same time.

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

Install whereami 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 whereami using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install whereami

Install whereami 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 whereami using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install whereami

How To Uninstall whereami on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove whereami

whereami Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/whereami
/usr/bin/wmi
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2c
/usr/lib/.build-id/2c/39a929d4b15d35288fcbba28dbdd5e700afd57
/usr/share/doc/whereami
/usr/share/doc/whereami/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/whereami/README
/usr/share/man/man1/whereami.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/wmi.1.gz

References

Summary

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