How To Install rlwrap on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install rlwrap in Fedora 36. rlwrap is Wrapper for GNU readline

Introduction

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

What is rlwrap

rlwrap is a ‘readline wrapper’ that uses the GNU readline library to allow the editing of keyboard input for any other command. Input history is remembered across invocations, separately for each command; history completion and search work as in bash and completion word lists can be specified on the command line.

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

Install rlwrap 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 rlwrap using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install rlwrap

Install rlwrap 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 rlwrap using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install rlwrap

How To Uninstall rlwrap on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove rlwrap

rlwrap Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/rlwrap
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/16
/usr/lib/.build-id/16/b098092c7e5bbbe74313ca774368ec8927085f
/usr/share/doc/rlwrap
/usr/share/doc/rlwrap/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/rlwrap/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/rlwrap/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/rlwrap
/usr/share/licenses/rlwrap/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/rlwrap.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/RlwrapFilter.3pm.gz
/usr/share/rlwrap
/usr/share/rlwrap/completions
/usr/share/rlwrap/completions/coqtop
/usr/share/rlwrap/completions/testclient
/usr/share/rlwrap/filters
/usr/share/rlwrap/filters/README
/usr/share/rlwrap/filters/RlwrapFilter.3pm
/usr/share/rlwrap/filters/RlwrapFilter.pm
/usr/share/rlwrap/filters/censor_passwords
/usr/share/rlwrap/filters/censor_passwords.py
/usr/share/rlwrap/filters/count_in_prompt
/usr/share/rlwrap/filters/count_in_prompt.py
/usr/share/rlwrap/filters/debug_null
/usr/share/rlwrap/filters/dissect_prompt
/usr/share/rlwrap/filters/edit_history
/usr/share/rlwrap/filters/ftp_filter
/usr/share/rlwrap/filters/ftp_filter.py
/usr/share/rlwrap/filters/handle_hotkeys
/usr/share/rlwrap/filters/handle_hotkeys.py
/usr/share/rlwrap/filters/handle_sigwinch
/usr/share/rlwrap/filters/history_format
/usr/share/rlwrap/filters/listing
/usr/share/rlwrap/filters/logger
/usr/share/rlwrap/filters/logger.py
/usr/share/rlwrap/filters/makefilter
/usr/share/rlwrap/filters/null
/usr/share/rlwrap/filters/null.py
/usr/share/rlwrap/filters/outfilter
/usr/share/rlwrap/filters/paint_prompt
/usr/share/rlwrap/filters/paint_prompt.py
/usr/share/rlwrap/filters/pipeline
/usr/share/rlwrap/filters/pipeto
/usr/share/rlwrap/filters/pipeto.py
/usr/share/rlwrap/filters/rlwrapfilter.py
/usr/share/rlwrap/filters/scrub_prompt
/usr/share/rlwrap/filters/simple_macro
/usr/share/rlwrap/filters/template
/usr/share/rlwrap/filters/unbackspace

References

Summary

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