How To Install gkrellxmms2 on Fedora 34

gkrellxmms2 is Gkrellm2 plugin client for XMMS2

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gkrellxmms2 on Fedora 34.

What is gkrellxmms2

gkrellxmms2 is a gkrellm2 plugin for XMMS2. It has a title scroller with a position marker and five buttons for playback control. The position marker can be moved with the mouse to seek in the current track. The M button opens a menu with two items for opening a trackinfo dialog and the media library window.

We can use yum or dnf to install gkrellxmms2 on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gkrellxmms2.

Install gkrellxmms2 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 gkrellxmms2 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gkrellxmms2

Install gkrellxmms2 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 gkrellxmms2 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gkrellxmms2

How To Uninstall gkrellxmms2 on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the gkrellxmms2 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove gkrellxmms2

gkrellxmms2 Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/83
/usr/lib/.build-id/83/187b875717afc317a1c6e61bd5c9a155f4f707
/usr/lib64/gkrellm2/plugins/gkrellxmms2.so
/usr/share/doc/gkrellxmms2
/usr/share/doc/gkrellxmms2/CHANGELOG
/usr/share/doc/gkrellxmms2/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/gkrellxmms2/README

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gkrellxmms2 on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.