How To Install whohas on Fedora 34

whohas is Command line tool for query package lists

Introduction

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

What is whohas

whohas is a command line tool that allows querying several package lists at once - currently supported are Arch, Debian, Gentoo and Slackware. whohas is written in Perl and was designed to help package maintainers find ebuilds, pkgbuilds and similar package definitions from other distributions to learn from.

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

Install whohas 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 whohas using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install whohas

Install whohas 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 whohas using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install whohas

How To Uninstall whohas on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove whohas

whohas Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/whohas
/usr/share/doc/whohas
/usr/share/doc/whohas/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/whohas/README
/usr/share/doc/whohas/TODO
/usr/share/doc/whohas/examples
/usr/share/doc/whohas/html_assets
/usr/share/doc/whohas/html_assets/bgc.gif
/usr/share/doc/whohas/html_assets/blackleaf.css
/usr/share/doc/whohas/html_assets/iespecific.css
/usr/share/doc/whohas/html_assets/screenshot.jpg
/usr/share/doc/whohas/intro.html
/usr/share/licenses/whohas
/usr/share/licenses/whohas/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/de/man1/whohas.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/whohas.1.gz

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Summary

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