How To Install lscolors on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install lscolors in Fedora 36. lscolors is Colorize paths using the LS_COLORS environment variable

Introduction

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

What is `lscolors`

Colorize paths using the LS_COLORS environment variable.

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

Install lscolors 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 lscolors using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install lscolors

Install lscolors 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 lscolors using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install lscolors

How To Uninstall lscolors on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove lscolors

lscolors Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/lscolors
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/af
/usr/lib/.build-id/af/65dd24bb9d1ba5287ea31acf2f0c25acda1700
/usr/share/doc/lscolors
/usr/share/doc/lscolors/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/lscolors
/usr/share/licenses/lscolors/LICENSE-APACHE
/usr/share/licenses/lscolors/LICENSE-MIT

References

lscolors website

Summary

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