How To Install mg on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install mg in Fedora 36. mg is Tiny Emacs-like editor

Introduction

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

What is `mg`

mg is a tiny, mostly public-domain Emacs-like editor included in the base OpenBSD system. It is compatible with Emacs because there shouldn’t be any reason to learn more editor types than Emacs or vi.

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

Install mg 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 mg using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install mg

Install mg 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 mg using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install mg

How To Uninstall mg on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove mg

mg Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/mg
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6a
/usr/lib/.build-id/6a/8d2b7624ce4f8376d22b49b0bf6a5848f57cc3
/usr/share/doc/mg
/usr/share/doc/mg/README
/usr/share/doc/mg/tutorial
/usr/share/man/man1/mg.1.gz

References

mg website

Summary

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