How To Install bcal on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install bcal in Fedora 36. bcal is Storage conversion and expression calculator

Introduction

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

What is `bcal`

bcal (Byte CALculator) is a command-line utility for storage conversions and calculations. Storage, hardware and firmware developers work with numerical calculations regularly e.g., storage unit conversions, address calculations etc. If you are one and can’t calculate the hex address offset for (512 - 16) MiB immediately, or the value when the 43rd bit of a 64-bit address is set, bcal is for you

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

Install bcal 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 bcal using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install bcal

Install bcal 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 bcal using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install bcal

How To Uninstall bcal on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove bcal

bcal Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/bcal
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/e7
/usr/lib/.build-id/e7/d00916214d8f9e1352b7213e609c445397e972
/usr/share/doc/bcal
/usr/share/doc/bcal/CHANGELOG
/usr/share/doc/bcal/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/bcal
/usr/share/licenses/bcal/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/bcal.1.gz

References

bcal website

Summary

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