How To Install yank on Fedora 34

yank is Tool for selecting and copying text from stdin without a mouse

Introduction

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

What is yank

Read input from stdin and display a selection interface that allows a field to be selected and copied to the clipboard. Fields are either recognized by a regular expression using the -g option or by splitting the input on a delimiter sequence using the -d option.

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

Install yank 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 yank using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install yank

Install yank 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 yank using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install yank

How To Uninstall yank on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove yank

yank Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/yank-cli
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/49
/usr/lib/.build-id/49/e81dd212d32d6f2c5bc02799ad64687827d93d
/usr/share/doc/yank
/usr/share/doc/yank/CHANGELOG.md
/usr/share/doc/yank/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/yank
/usr/share/licenses/yank/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/yank-cli.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/yank.1.gz

References

Summary

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