How To Install xfoil on Fedora 34

xfoil is Subsonic Airfoil Development System

Introduction

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

What is xfoil

XFOIL is an interactive program for the design and analysis of subsonic isolated airfoils.

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

Install xfoil 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 xfoil using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install xfoil

Install xfoil 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 xfoil using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install xfoil

How To Uninstall xfoil on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove xfoil

xfoil Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/pplot
/usr/bin/pxplot
/usr/bin/xfoil
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2b
/usr/lib/.build-id/2b/a7848ba0cea63221c355c157d1c0adedf88039
/usr/lib/.build-id/dc
/usr/lib/.build-id/dc/df1db3b4b5946153d9c9dfb51dc719db18d045
/usr/lib/.build-id/e9
/usr/lib/.build-id/e9/788b9e00a9083d3a27ec0ae878932b73148860
/usr/share/doc/xfoil
/usr/share/doc/xfoil/sessions.txt
/usr/share/doc/xfoil/version_notes.txt
/usr/share/doc/xfoil/xfoil_doc.txt
/usr/share/licenses/xfoil
/usr/share/licenses/xfoil/LICENSE.GPL
/usr/share/licenses/xfoil/LICENSE.LGPL
/usr/share/xfoil
/usr/share/xfoil/osmap.dat

References

Summary

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