How To Install fritzing on Fedora 34

fritzing is Electronic Design Automation software; from prototype to product

Introduction

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

What is fritzing

Fritzing is a free software tool to support designers, artists and hobbyists to work creatively with interactive electronics.

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

Install fritzing 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 fritzing using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fritzing

Install fritzing 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 fritzing using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fritzing

How To Uninstall fritzing on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove fritzing

fritzing Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/Fritzing
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/cb
/usr/lib/.build-id/cb/238d8cd9ddda65bbdaaf49590bf39dd157d610
/usr/share/applications/org.fritzing.Fritzing.desktop
/usr/share/doc/fritzing
/usr/share/doc/fritzing/LICENSE.CC-BY-SA
/usr/share/doc/fritzing/LICENSE.GPL2
/usr/share/doc/fritzing/LICENSE.GPL3
/usr/share/doc/fritzing/README.md
/usr/share/man/man1/Fritzing.1.gz
/usr/share/metainfo/org.fritzing.Fritzing.appdata.xml
/usr/share/mime/packages/fritzing.xml
/usr/share/pixmaps/fritzing.png

References

Summary

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