How To Install urlview on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install urlview in Fedora 36. urlview is URL extractor/launcher

Introduction

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

What is `urlview`

urlview is a screen oriented program for extracting URLs from text files and displaying a menu from which you may launch a command to view a specific item.

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

Install urlview 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 urlview using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install urlview

Install urlview 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 urlview using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install urlview

How To Uninstall urlview on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove urlview

urlview Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/urlview.conf
/usr/bin/url_handler.sh
/usr/bin/urlview
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c9
/usr/lib/.build-id/c9/13e65a25c2f76019a82bcfa01f52934ad8e5d4
/usr/share/doc/urlview
/usr/share/doc/urlview/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/urlview/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/urlview/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/urlview/README
/usr/share/doc/urlview/sample.urlview
/usr/share/man/man1/url_handler.sh.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/urlview.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/urlview.conf.5.gz

References

urlview website

Summary

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