How To Install finger on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install finger in Fedora 36. finger is The finger client

Introduction

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

What is `finger`

Finger is a utility which allows users to see information about system users (login name, home directory, name, how long they’ve been logged in to the system, etc.). The finger package includes a standard finger client. You should install finger if you’d like to retrieve finger information from other systems.

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

Install finger 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 finger using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install finger

Install finger 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 finger using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install finger

How To Uninstall finger on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove finger

finger Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/finger
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/62
/usr/lib/.build-id/62/8c4a0deee22b23892ca364d434c1a04b842a07
/usr/share/doc/finger
/usr/share/doc/finger/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/finger.1.gz

References

finger website

Summary

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