How To Install alternatives on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install alternatives
on Fedora 36.
What is alternatives
alternatives creates, removes, maintains and displays information about the symbolic links comprising the alternatives system. It is possible for several programs fulfilling the same or similar functions to be installed on a single system at the same time.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install alternatives
on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install alternatives.
Install alternatives 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 alternatives
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install alternatives
Install alternatives 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 alternatives
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install alternatives
How To Uninstall alternatives on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the alternatives
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove alternatives
alternatives Package Contents on Fedora 36
/etc/alternatives
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/76
/usr/lib/.build-id/76/aed648d9d36721e509caedb1490d69cd901f32
/usr/sbin/alternatives
/usr/sbin/update-alternatives
/usr/share/licenses/alternatives
/usr/share/licenses/alternatives/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/alternatives.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/update-alternatives.8.gz
/var/lib/alternatives
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install alternatives
on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).