How To Install act on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install act in Fedora 36. act is Automatic Component Toolkit

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install act on Fedora 36.

What is `act`

The Automatic Component Toolkit (ACT) is a code generator that takes an instance of an Interface Description Language file and generates a thin C89-API, implementation stubs and language bindings of your desired software component.

We can use yum or dnf to install act on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install act.

Install act on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install act using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install act

Install act on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install act using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install act

How To Uninstall act on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove act

act Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/act
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/8b
/usr/lib/.build-id/8b/796589210719dc9c91c821b1a5c2c59109b4e0
/usr/share/doc/act
/usr/share/doc/act/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/act
/usr/share/licenses/act/LICENSE.md

References

act website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install act on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).