How To Install contractor on Fedora 34

contractor is Desktop-wide extension service

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install contractor on Fedora 34.

What is contractor

An extension service that allows apps to use the exposed functionality of registered apps. This way, apps don’t have to have the functions hard coded into them.

We can use yum or dnf to install contractor on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install contractor.

Install contractor on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo dnf -y install contractor

Install contractor on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install contractor using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install contractor

How To Uninstall contractor on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove contractor

contractor Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/contractor
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/7b
/usr/lib/.build-id/7b/921dc1d8f94c0c8333d490b477843bc9768115
/usr/share/contractor
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.elementary.contractor.service
/usr/share/doc/contractor
/usr/share/doc/contractor/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/contractor
/usr/share/licenses/contractor/COPYING
/usr/bin/contractor
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/e5
/usr/lib/.build-id/e5/25a80a0e2833f40471412ff1ac64d7781d334a
/usr/share/contractor
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.elementary.contractor.service
/usr/share/doc/contractor
/usr/share/doc/contractor/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/contractor
/usr/share/licenses/contractor/COPYING

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install contractor on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.