How To Install zile on Fedora 34

zile is Zile Is Lossy Emacs

Introduction

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

What is zile

Zile is a small Emacs clone. Zile is a customizable, self-documenting real-time open-source display editor. Zile was written to be as similar as possible to Emacs; every Emacs user should feel at home.

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

Install zile 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 zile using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install zile

Install zile 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 zile using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install zile

How To Uninstall zile on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove zile

zile Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/zile
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0e
/usr/lib/.build-id/0e/8edf32ea8680f49985b8cda78a8f5ceee285ff
/usr/share/doc/zile
/usr/share/doc/zile/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/zile/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/zile/FAQ
/usr/share/doc/zile/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/zile/README
/usr/share/doc/zile/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/zile/dotzile.sample
/usr/share/licenses/zile
/usr/share/licenses/zile/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/zile.1.gz

References

Summary

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