How To Install which on Fedora 34

which is Displays where a particular program in your path is located

Introduction

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

What is which

The which command shows the full pathname of a specified program, if the specified program is in your PATH.

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

Install which 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 which using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install which

Install which 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 which using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install which

How To Uninstall which on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove which

which Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/profile.d/which2.csh
/etc/profile.d/which2.sh
/usr/bin/which
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1a
/usr/lib/.build-id/1a/69cbdbd54d1263124e72a9785ffe6d4b174b8d
/usr/share/doc/which
/usr/share/doc/which/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/which/EXAMPLES
/usr/share/doc/which/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/which/README
/usr/share/info/which.info.gz
/usr/share/licenses/which
/usr/share/licenses/which/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/which.1.gz
/etc/profile.d/which2.csh
/etc/profile.d/which2.sh
/usr/bin/which
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/62
/usr/lib/.build-id/62/a3a55a6e235ce1c82a0cf9c44940f69f98b72c
/usr/share/doc/which
/usr/share/doc/which/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/which/EXAMPLES
/usr/share/doc/which/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/which/README
/usr/share/info/which.info.gz
/usr/share/licenses/which
/usr/share/licenses/which/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/which.1.gz

References

Summary

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