How To Install yamllint on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install yamllint in Fedora 36. yamllint is A linter for YAML files

Introduction

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

What is `yamllint`

A linter for YAML files. yamllint does not only check for syntax validity, but for weirdnesses like key repetition and cosmetic problems such as lines length, trailing spaces, indentation, etc.

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

Install yamllint 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 yamllint using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install yamllint

Install yamllint 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 yamllint using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install yamllint

How To Uninstall yamllint on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove yamllint

yamllint Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/yamllint
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint-1.26.3-py3.10.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint-1.26.3-py3.10.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint-1.26.3-py3.10.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint-1.26.3-py3.10.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint-1.26.3-py3.10.egg-info/entry_points.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint-1.26.3-py3.10.egg-info/requires.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint-1.26.3-py3.10.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/__main__.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/__pycache__/__main__.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/__pycache__/__main__.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/__pycache__/cli.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/__pycache__/cli.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/__pycache__/config.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/__pycache__/config.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/__pycache__/linter.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/__pycache__/linter.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/__pycache__/parser.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/__pycache__/parser.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/cli.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/conf
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/conf/default.yaml
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/conf/relaxed.yaml
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/config.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/linter.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/parser.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/rules
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/braces.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/braces.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/brackets.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/brackets.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/colons.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/colons.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/commas.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/commas.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/comments.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/comments.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/comments_indentation.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/comments_indentation.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/common.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/common.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/document_end.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/document_end.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/document_start.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/document_start.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/empty_lines.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/empty_lines.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/empty_values.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/empty_values.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/hyphens.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/hyphens.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/indentation.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/indentation.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/key_duplicates.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/key_duplicates.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/key_ordering.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/key_ordering.cpython-310.pyc
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/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/line_length.cpython-310.pyc
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/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/octal_values.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/octal_values.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/quoted_strings.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/quoted_strings.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/trailing_spaces.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/trailing_spaces.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/truthy.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/rules/__pycache__/truthy.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/rules/braces.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/rules/brackets.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/rules/colons.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/rules/commas.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/rules/comments.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/rules/comments_indentation.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/rules/common.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/rules/document_end.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/rules/document_start.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/rules/empty_lines.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/rules/empty_values.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/rules/hyphens.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/rules/indentation.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/rules/key_duplicates.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/rules/key_ordering.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/rules/line_length.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/rules/new_line_at_end_of_file.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/rules/new_lines.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/rules/octal_values.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/rules/quoted_strings.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/rules/trailing_spaces.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/yamllint/rules/truthy.py
/usr/share/doc/yamllint
/usr/share/doc/yamllint/README.rst
/usr/share/licenses/yamllint
/usr/share/licenses/yamllint/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/yamllint.1.gz

References

yamllint website

Summary

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