How To Install yank on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install yank in Fedora 36. yank is Tool for selecting and copying text from stdin without a mouse

Introduction

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

What is `yank`

Read input from stdin and display a selection interface that allows a field to be selected and copied to the clipboard. Fields are either recognized by a regular expression using the -g option or by splitting the input on a delimiter sequence using the -d option.

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

Install yank 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 yank using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install yank

Install yank 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 yank using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install yank

How To Uninstall yank on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove yank

yank Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/yank-cli
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/30
/usr/lib/.build-id/30/f4b17d0903181111615d72216e6abb87929eb9
/usr/share/doc/yank
/usr/share/doc/yank/CHANGELOG.md
/usr/share/doc/yank/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/yank
/usr/share/licenses/yank/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/yank-cli.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/yank.1.gz

References

yank website

Summary

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