How To Install mingw32-nsiswrapper on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install mingw32-nsiswrapper in Fedora 36. mingw32-nsiswrapper is Helper program for making NSIS Windows installers

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mingw32-nsiswrapper on Fedora 36.

What is mingw32-nsiswrapper

NSISWrapper is a helper program for making Windows installers, particularly when you are cross-compiling from Unix. NSIS (a separate package) is a program for building Windows installers. This wrapper simply makes it easier to generate the installer script that NSIS needs.

We can use yum or dnf to install mingw32-nsiswrapper on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mingw32-nsiswrapper.

Install mingw32-nsiswrapper 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 mingw32-nsiswrapper using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install mingw32-nsiswrapper

Install mingw32-nsiswrapper 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 mingw32-nsiswrapper using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install mingw32-nsiswrapper

How To Uninstall mingw32-nsiswrapper on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the mingw32-nsiswrapper package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove mingw32-nsiswrapper

mingw32-nsiswrapper Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/nsiswrapper
/usr/share/doc/mingw-nsiswrapper/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/mingw-nsiswrapper/README
/usr/share/man/man1/nsiswrapper.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mingw32-nsiswrapper on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).