How To Install diceware on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install diceware in Fedora 36. diceware is Create passphrases which one can remember

Introduction

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

What is diceware

A simple command line tool which can create simple passphrases which human can remember.

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

Install diceware 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 diceware using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install diceware

Install diceware 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 diceware using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install diceware

How To Uninstall diceware on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove diceware

diceware Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/diceware
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/diceware
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/diceware-0.9.5-py3.10.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/diceware-0.9.5-py3.10.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/diceware-0.9.5-py3.10.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/diceware-0.9.5-py3.10.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/diceware-0.9.5-py3.10.egg-info/entry_points.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/diceware-0.9.5-py3.10.egg-info/namespace_packages.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/diceware-0.9.5-py3.10.egg-info/not-zip-safe
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/diceware-0.9.5-py3.10.egg-info/requires.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/diceware-0.9.5-py3.10.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/diceware/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/diceware/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/diceware/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/diceware/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/diceware/__pycache__/config.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/diceware/__pycache__/config.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/diceware/__pycache__/logger.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/diceware/__pycache__/logger.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/diceware/__pycache__/random_sources.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/diceware/__pycache__/random_sources.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/diceware/__pycache__/wordlist.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/diceware/__pycache__/wordlist.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/diceware/config.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/diceware/logger.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/diceware/random_sources.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/diceware/wordlist.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/diceware/wordlists
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/diceware/wordlists/wordlist_en.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/diceware/wordlists/wordlist_en_eff.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/diceware/wordlists/wordlist_en_orig.asc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/diceware/wordlists/wordlist_en_securedrop.asc
/usr/share/doc/diceware
/usr/share/doc/diceware/COPYRIGHT
/usr/share/doc/diceware/README.rst
/usr/share/licenses/diceware
/usr/share/licenses/diceware/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/diceware.1.gz

References

Summary

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