How To Install howl on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install howl in Fedora 36. howl is Lightweight editor with a keyboard-centric minimalistic UI

Introduction

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

What is `howl`

Howl is a general purpose editor that aims to be both lightweight and fully customizable. It’s built on top of the very fast LuaJIT runtime, uses Gtk for its interface, and can be extended in either Lua or Moonscript. It’s known to work on Linux, but should work on at least the *BSD’s as well.

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

Install howl 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 howl using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install howl

Install howl 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 howl using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install howl

How To Uninstall howl on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove howl

howl Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/howl
/usr/bin/howl-spec
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/85
/usr/lib/.build-id/85/81d60c65e9cdf827a493e314da0844d8d19fb1
/usr/share/applications/howl.desktop
/usr/share/doc/howl
/usr/share/doc/howl/Changelog.md
/usr/share/doc/howl/README.md
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/howl.svg
/usr/share/licenses/howl
/usr/share/licenses/howl/LICENSE.md
/usr/share/metainfo/howl.appdata.xml

References

howl website

Summary

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