How To Install ikisite-wrapper on Fedora 34

One-liner Install Command

If you are only interested in the installation command, here is a quick answer for you:

sudo yum makecache && sudo yum -y install ikiwiki-hosting-web

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install ikiwiki-hosting-web

But if you are interested in the details with step-by-step instructions, the following information will be helpful.

What is ikisite-wrapper and How to Install It?

First things first, you will need access to a server or computer running Fedora 34. This guide was written specifically with a server running Fedora 34 in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install ikisite-wrapper on Fedora 34. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install ikisite-wrapper on Fedora 34 using dnf

First, update dnf packages database with dnf by running the next command:

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating database, You can install ikisite-wrapper using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ikiwiki-hosting-web

Install ikisite-wrapper on Fedora 34 using yum

Because ikisite-wrapper is available in Fedora 34’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the yum packaging system.

To begin, update local packages database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

Now can install ikisite-wrapper package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ikiwiki-hosting-web

How to upgrade (update) a single package ikisite-wrapper using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

If you want to update a specific package like ikisite-wrapper in this example you should use the following command:

yum update ikiwiki-hosting-web

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade ikiwiki-hosting-web

How to Upgrade ikisite-wrapper on Fedora 34 with dnf?

When you run the dnf update, all system packages with available updates are updated. However, if you want to upgrade a single package, then you would have to pass the package name as the argument to the dnf update command.

dnf update ikiwiki-hosting-web

How To remove ikisite-wrapper from Fedora 34

To uninstall only the ikisite-wrapper package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove ikiwiki-hosting-web

Extra info and code examples

A hosting interface for ikiwiki. Facilitates management of many separate ikiwiki sites, with capabilities including web-based signup to create new sites, easy support for branching sites, deleting sites, and transferring sites between servers. Ikiwiki-hosting was developed for Branchable.com. This package contains the ikisite program, and related things to install on each web server.

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install ikisite-wrapper using dnf and yum package managers. Also, we showed how to update manually as a single package and different ways to uninstall the ikisite-wrapper from Fedora 34.

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