How To Install ibus-fbterm on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install ibus-fbterm in Fedora 36. ibus-fbterm is IBus front-end for fbterm

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ibus-fbterm on Fedora 36.

What is `ibus-fbterm`

ibus-fbterm is a input method for FbTerm based on IBus. * To utilize framebuffer, user should be added into ‘video’ group, or install fbterm-udevrules package.

We can use yum or dnf to install ibus-fbterm on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ibus-fbterm.

Install ibus-fbterm on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install ibus-fbterm

Install ibus-fbterm on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install ibus-fbterm using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ibus-fbterm

How To Uninstall ibus-fbterm on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the ibus-fbterm package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove ibus-fbterm

ibus-fbterm Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/ibus-fbterm
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/89
/usr/lib/.build-id/89/f2aec3f9ffd026b9ec1f1b10dfef83c865b2e7
/usr/libexec/ibus-fbterm-backend
/usr/share/doc/ibus-fbterm
/usr/share/doc/ibus-fbterm/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/ibus-fbterm/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/ibus-fbterm/README
/usr/share/man/man1/ibus-fbterm.1.gz

References

ibus-fbterm website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ibus-fbterm on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).