How To Install xconsole on Fedora 34

xconsole is Display messages in an X11 window

Introduction

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

What is xconsole

xconsole displays in a X11 window the messages which are usually sent to /dev/console

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

Install xconsole 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 xconsole using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install xconsole

Install xconsole 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 xconsole using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install xconsole

How To Uninstall xconsole on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove xconsole

xconsole Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/xconsole
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/52
/usr/lib/.build-id/52/ca018e18d24623ca6e39137b84cf98e1a47183
/usr/share/X11/app-defaults/XConsole
/usr/share/licenses/xconsole
/usr/share/licenses/xconsole/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/xconsole.1.gz

References

Summary

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