How To Install ikiwiki-w3m on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install ikiwiki-w3m in Fedora 36. ikiwiki-w3m is Ikiwiki w3m cgi meta-wrapper

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ikiwiki-w3m on Fedora 36.

What is `ikiwiki-w3m`

Enable usage of all of ikiwiki’s web features (page editing, etc) in the w3m web browser without a web server. w3m supports local CGI scripts, and ikiwiki can be set up to run that way using the meta-wrapper in this package.

We can use yum or dnf to install ikiwiki-w3m on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ikiwiki-w3m.

Install ikiwiki-w3m 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 ikiwiki-w3m using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ikiwiki-w3m

Install ikiwiki-w3m 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 ikiwiki-w3m using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ikiwiki-w3m

How To Uninstall ikiwiki-w3m on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the ikiwiki-w3m package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove ikiwiki-w3m

ikiwiki-w3m Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/libexec/w3m/cgi-bin/ikiwiki-w3m.cgi
/usr/share/doc/ikiwiki-w3m
/usr/share/doc/ikiwiki-w3m/README.fedora

References

ikiwiki-w3m website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ikiwiki-w3m on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).