How To Install fetchlog on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fetchlog
on Fedora 36.
What is fetchlog
The fetchlog utility displays the last new messages of a logfile. It is similar like tail (1) but offers some extra functionality for output formatting. To show only the new messages appeared since the last call fetchlog uses a bookmark to remember which messages have been fetched.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install fetchlog
on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fetchlog.
Install fetchlog 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 fetchlog
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install fetchlog
Install fetchlog 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 fetchlog
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install fetchlog
How To Uninstall fetchlog on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the fetchlog
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove fetchlog
fetchlog Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/bin/fetchlog
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/31
/usr/lib/.build-id/31/6714039442b66514b68a297f70550d68150bc3
/usr/share/doc/fetchlog
/usr/share/doc/fetchlog/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/fetchlog/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/fetchlog/README
/usr/share/doc/fetchlog/README.Nagios
/usr/share/doc/fetchlog/README.SNMP
/usr/share/man/man1/fetchlog.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fetchlog
on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).