How To Install luit on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install luit in Fedora 36. luit is Locale and ISO 2022 support for Unicode terminals

Introduction

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

What is `luit`

Luit is a filter that can be run between an arbitrary application and a UTF-8 terminal emulator. It will convert application output from the locale’s encoding into UTF-8, and convert terminal input from UTF-8 into the locale’s encoding. Unlike the older XFree86/Xorg version of luit, this does not rely upon the fontenc package.

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

Install luit 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 luit using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install luit

Install luit 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 luit using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install luit

How To Uninstall luit on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove luit

luit Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/luit
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/43
/usr/lib/.build-id/43/bef4836b9d3208063f254604a207fccd5052a6
/usr/share/doc/luit
/usr/share/doc/luit/luit.log.html
/usr/share/licenses/luit
/usr/share/licenses/luit/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/luit.1.gz

References

luit website

Summary

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