How To Install pleaser on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install pleaser in Fedora 36. pleaser is Please, a polite regex-first sudo alternative

Introduction

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

What is `pleaser`

Please, a polite regex-first sudo alternative.

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

Install pleaser 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 pleaser using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install pleaser

Install pleaser 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 pleaser using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install pleaser

How To Uninstall pleaser on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove pleaser

pleaser Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/pam.d/please
/etc/pam.d/pleaseedit
/usr/bin/please
/usr/bin/pleaseedit
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/21
/usr/lib/.build-id/21/29633232374badfe33e237d57032006098d4b1
/usr/lib/.build-id/95
/usr/lib/.build-id/95/424714b091b0979e6394f9d1ccbf20c62ab3e7
/usr/share/doc/pleaser
/usr/share/doc/pleaser/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/pleaser
/usr/share/licenses/pleaser/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/please.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/please.ini.5.gz

References

pleaser website

Summary

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