How To Install profile-sync-daemon on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install profile-sync-daemon on Fedora 36.
What is profile-sync-daemon
Profile-sync-daemon (psd) is a tiny pseudo-daemon designed to manage your browser’s profile in tmpfs and to periodically sync it back to your physical disc (HDD/SSD). This is accomplished via a symlinking step and an innovative use of rsync to maintain back-up and synchronization between the two. One of the major design goals of psd is a completely transparent user experience.
We can use yum or dnf to install profile-sync-daemon on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install profile-sync-daemon.
Install profile-sync-daemon 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 profile-sync-daemon using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install profile-sync-daemon
Install profile-sync-daemon 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 profile-sync-daemon using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install profile-sync-daemon
How To Uninstall profile-sync-daemon on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the profile-sync-daemon package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove profile-sync-daemon
profile-sync-daemon Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/bin/profile-sync-daemon
/usr/bin/psd
/usr/bin/psd-overlay-helper
/usr/bin/psd-suspend-sync
/usr/lib/systemd/user/psd-resync.service
/usr/lib/systemd/user/psd-resync.timer
/usr/lib/systemd/user/psd.service
/usr/share/doc/profile-sync-daemon
/usr/share/doc/profile-sync-daemon/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/profile-sync-daemon
/usr/share/licenses/profile-sync-daemon/LICENSE
/usr/share/licenses/profile-sync-daemon/MIT
/usr/share/man/man1/profile-sync-daemon.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/psd-overlay-helper.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/psd.1.gz
/usr/share/psd
/usr/share/psd/browsers
/usr/share/psd/browsers/chromium
/usr/share/psd/browsers/chromium-dev
/usr/share/psd/browsers/conkeror.mozdev.org
/usr/share/psd/browsers/epiphany
/usr/share/psd/browsers/falkon
/usr/share/psd/browsers/firefox
/usr/share/psd/browsers/firefox-trunk
/usr/share/psd/browsers/google-chrome
/usr/share/psd/browsers/google-chrome-beta
/usr/share/psd/browsers/google-chrome-unstable
/usr/share/psd/browsers/heftig-aurora
/usr/share/psd/browsers/icecat
/usr/share/psd/browsers/inox
/usr/share/psd/browsers/luakit
/usr/share/psd/browsers/midori
/usr/share/psd/browsers/opera
/usr/share/psd/browsers/opera-beta
/usr/share/psd/browsers/opera-developer
/usr/share/psd/browsers/opera-legacy
/usr/share/psd/browsers/opera-next
/usr/share/psd/browsers/otter-browser
/usr/share/psd/browsers/palemoon
/usr/share/psd/browsers/qupzilla
/usr/share/psd/browsers/qutebrowser
/usr/share/psd/browsers/rekonq
/usr/share/psd/browsers/seamonkey
/usr/share/psd/browsers/surf
/usr/share/psd/browsers/vivaldi
/usr/share/psd/browsers/vivaldi-snapshot
/usr/share/psd/contrib
/usr/share/psd/contrib/brave
/usr/share/psd/psd.conf
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_psd
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install profile-sync-daemon on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).
