How To Install toilet on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install toilet in Fedora 36. toilet is Display large colorful characters in text mode

Introduction

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

What is toilet

The TOIlet project attempts to create a free replacement for the FIGlet utility. TOIlet stands for “The Other Implementation’s letters”, coined after FIGlet’s “Frank, Ian and Glen’s letters”.

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

Install toilet 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 toilet using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install toilet

Install toilet 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 toilet using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install toilet

How To Uninstall toilet on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove toilet

toilet Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/toilet
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/10
/usr/lib/.build-id/10/5cf85cee82378c117e87dfed1f7ff3805b4e30
/usr/share/doc/toilet
/usr/share/doc/toilet/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/toilet/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/toilet/README
/usr/share/doc/toilet/TODO
/usr/share/figlet
/usr/share/figlet/ascii12.tlf
/usr/share/figlet/ascii9.tlf
/usr/share/figlet/bigascii12.tlf
/usr/share/figlet/bigascii9.tlf
/usr/share/figlet/bigmono12.tlf
/usr/share/figlet/bigmono9.tlf
/usr/share/figlet/circle.tlf
/usr/share/figlet/emboss.tlf
/usr/share/figlet/emboss2.tlf
/usr/share/figlet/future.tlf
/usr/share/figlet/letter.tlf
/usr/share/figlet/mono12.tlf
/usr/share/figlet/mono9.tlf
/usr/share/figlet/pagga.tlf
/usr/share/figlet/smascii12.tlf
/usr/share/figlet/smascii9.tlf
/usr/share/figlet/smblock.tlf
/usr/share/figlet/smbraille.tlf
/usr/share/figlet/smmono12.tlf
/usr/share/figlet/smmono9.tlf
/usr/share/figlet/wideterm.tlf
/usr/share/licenses/toilet
/usr/share/licenses/toilet/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/toilet.1.gz

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Summary

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