How To Install oksh on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install oksh in Fedora 36. oksh is Portable OpenBSD ksh, based on the Public Domain Korn Shell

Introduction

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

What is `oksh`

Portable OpenBSD ksh, based on the Public Domain Korn Shell.

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

Install oksh 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 oksh using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install oksh

Install oksh 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 oksh using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install oksh

How To Uninstall oksh on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove oksh

oksh Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/ksh.kshrc
/usr/bin/oksh
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b5
/usr/lib/.build-id/b5/f758c030322c12a5cf952176b0a50fbeb99096
/usr/share/doc/oksh
/usr/share/doc/oksh/CONTRIBUTORS
/usr/share/doc/oksh/NOTES
/usr/share/doc/oksh/README.md
/usr/share/doc/oksh/README.pdksh
/usr/share/licenses/oksh
/usr/share/licenses/oksh/LEGAL
/usr/share/man/man1/oksh.1.gz

References

oksh website

Summary

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