How To Install info on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install info in Fedora 36. info is A stand-alone TTY-based reader for GNU texinfo documentation

Introduction

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

What is `info`

The GNU project uses the texinfo file format for much of its documentation. The info package provides a standalone TTY-based browser program for viewing texinfo files.

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

Install info 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 info using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install info

Install info 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 info using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install info

How To Uninstall info on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove info

info Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/info
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0e
/usr/lib/.build-id/0e/a8afbad0c524a3a3b36cc01d091b9bd200323b
/usr/lib/.build-id/55
/usr/lib/.build-id/55/630019d89288fe3e8d6a0e82af5d1f2db72f0b
/usr/sbin/fix-info-dir
/usr/sbin/install-info
/usr/share/info/dir
/usr/share/info/dir.old
/usr/share/info/info-stnd.info.gz
/usr/share/licenses/info
/usr/share/licenses/info/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/info.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/install-info.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/info.5.gz

References

info website

Summary

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