How To Install hexyl on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install hexyl in Fedora 36. hexyl is A command-line hex viewer

Introduction

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

What is `hexyl`

hexyl is a simple hex viewer for the terminal. It uses a colored output to distinguish different categories of bytes (NUL bytes, printable ASCII characters, ASCII whitespace characters, other ASCII characters and non-ASCII).

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

Install hexyl 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 hexyl using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install hexyl

Install hexyl 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 hexyl using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install hexyl

How To Uninstall hexyl on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove hexyl

hexyl Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/hexyl
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/36
/usr/lib/.build-id/36/5a349dd773c552d9c133e83703a25cc3c925e6
/usr/share/doc/hexyl
/usr/share/doc/hexyl/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/hexyl
/usr/share/licenses/hexyl/LICENSE-APACHE
/usr/share/licenses/hexyl/LICENSE-MIT

References

hexyl website

Summary

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