How To Install fortune-mod on AlmaLinux 8

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fortune-mod on AlmaLinux 8.

What is fortune-mod

Fortune-mod contains the ever-popular fortune program, which will display quotes or witticisms. Fun-loving system administrators can add fortune to users’ .login files, so that the users get their dose of wisdom each time they log in.

We can use yum or dnf to install fortune-mod on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fortune-mod.

Install fortune-mod on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install fortune-mod using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fortune-mod

Install fortune-mod on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install fortune-mod using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fortune-mod

How To Uninstall fortune-mod on AlmaLinux 8

To uninstall only the fortune-mod package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove fortune-mod

References

• fortune-mod website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fortune-mod on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.