How To Install tack on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install tack in Fedora 36. tack is Terminfo action checker

Introduction

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

What is `tack`

The tack program has three purposes entry describing an unknown terminal, to test the correctness of an existing entry, and to develop the correct pad timings needed to ensure that screen updates don’t fall behind the incoming data stream.

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

Install tack 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 tack using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install tack

Install tack 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 tack using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install tack

How To Uninstall tack on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove tack

tack Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/tack
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/98
/usr/lib/.build-id/98/3a4b6911607512c1831d085bc014dea6b32527
/usr/share/doc/tack
/usr/share/doc/tack/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/tack/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/tack/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/tack/HISTORY
/usr/share/doc/tack/README
/usr/share/man/man1/tack.1.gz

References

tack website

Summary

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