How To Install vnl-join 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 vnlog

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install vnlog

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

What is vnl-join 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 vnl-join 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 vnl-join 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 vnl-join using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install vnlog

Install vnl-join on Fedora 34 using yum

Because vnl-join 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 vnl-join package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install vnlog

How to upgrade (update) a single package vnl-join using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

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

yum update vnlog

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade vnlog

How to Upgrade vnl-join 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 vnlog

How To remove vnl-join from Fedora 34

To uninstall only the vnl-join package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove vnlog

Extra info and code examples

Vnlog (pronounced "vanillog") is a trivially-simple log format consisting of an ASCII table with comments and labelled fields. This package provides tools to process and manipulate such logs. The tools are: vnl-filter selects a subset of the rows/columns in a vnlog and/or to manipulates the contents. This is effectively an awk wrapper. vnl-sort, vnl-join, vnl-tail and vnl-ts are wrappers around the corresponding commandline tools vnl-align aligns vnlog columns for easy interpretation by humans vnl-make-matrix converts a one-point-per-line vnlog to a matrix of data

Conclusion

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

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