How To Install gawk-abort on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install gawk-abort in Fedora 36. gawk-abort is Abort library for gawk

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gawk-abort on Fedora 36.

What is `gawk-abort`

The gawk-abort module provides a gawk extension library implementing the abort function.

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

Install gawk-abort 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 gawk-abort using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gawk-abort

Install gawk-abort 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 gawk-abort using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gawk-abort

How To Uninstall gawk-abort on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the gawk-abort package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove gawk-abort

gawk-abort Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/fb
/usr/lib/.build-id/fb/5c7dc948e2cd73515a0e2ffd03942fc2c0bcab
/usr/lib64/gawk/abort.so
/usr/share/doc/gawk-abort
/usr/share/doc/gawk-abort/NEWS
/usr/share/licenses/gawk-abort
/usr/share/licenses/gawk-abort/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man3/abort.3am.gz

References

gawk-abort website

Summary

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