How To Install libedit on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install libedit in Fedora 36. libedit is The NetBSD Editline library

Introduction

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

What is `libedit`

Libedit is an autotool- and libtoolized port of the NetBSD Editline library. It provides generic line editing, history, and tokenization functions, similar to those found in GNU Readline.

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

Install libedit 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 libedit using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libedit

Install libedit 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 libedit using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libedit

How To Uninstall libedit on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove libedit

libedit Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/78
/usr/lib/.build-id/78/6ebbe150c63e27beb2957d717bece33431af6f
/usr/lib64/libedit.so.0
/usr/lib64/libedit.so.0.0.68
/usr/share/doc/libedit
/usr/share/doc/libedit/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libedit/THANKS
/usr/share/licenses/libedit
/usr/share/licenses/libedit/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man5/editrc.5.gz

References

libedit website

Summary

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