How To Install scheme-elk 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 elk

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install elk

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

What is scheme-elk 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 scheme-elk 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 scheme-elk 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 scheme-elk using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install elk

Install scheme-elk on Fedora 34 using yum

Because scheme-elk 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 scheme-elk package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install elk

How to upgrade (update) a single package scheme-elk using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

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

yum update elk

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade elk

How to Upgrade scheme-elk 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 elk

How To remove scheme-elk from Fedora 34

To uninstall only the scheme-elk package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove elk

Extra info and code examples

Elk is an implementation of the Scheme programming language, designed specifically as an embeddable, reusable extension language subsystem for applications written in C or C++. This package contains the Elk Scheme interpreter, as well as several plugins shipped with Elk. They provide hooks for Unix system calls, the X Window System, as well as the X Athena Widgets and the Motif toolkits. Example scripts on how to use these plugins are provided in the elkdoc package.

Conclusion

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

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