How To Install vicious on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install vicious in Fedora 36. vicious is Modular widget library for awesome

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install vicious on Fedora 36.

What is vicious

Vicious widget types are a framework for creating your own awesome widgets. Vicious contains modules that gather data about your system, and a few helper functions that make it easier to register timers, suspend widgets and so on.

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

Install vicious 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 vicious using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install vicious

Install vicious 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 vicious using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install vicious

How To Uninstall vicious on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove vicious

vicious Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/doc/vicious
/usr/share/doc/vicious/Changes.md
/usr/share/doc/vicious/README-contrib.md
/usr/share/doc/vicious/README-templates.md
/usr/share/doc/vicious/README.md
/usr/share/doc/vicious/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/vicious
/usr/share/licenses/vicious/LICENSE
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/contrib
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/contrib/ac_linux.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/contrib/ati_linux.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/contrib/batpmu_linux.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/contrib/batproc_linux.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/contrib/btc_all.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/contrib/buildbot_all.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/contrib/cmus_all.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/contrib/countfiles_all.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/contrib/dio_linux.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/contrib/init.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/contrib/mpc_all.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/contrib/net_linux.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/contrib/netcfg.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/contrib/nvinf_all.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/contrib/nvsmi_all.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/contrib/openweather_all.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/contrib/ossvol_linux.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/contrib/pop_all.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/contrib/pulse_all.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/contrib/rss_all.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/contrib/sensors_linux.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/contrib/wpa_all.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/helpers.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/init.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/spawn.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/templates
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/templates/async.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/templates/sync.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/bat_freebsd.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/bat_linux.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/bat_openbsd.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/cmus_all.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/cpu_freebsd.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/cpu_linux.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/cpu_openbsd.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/cpufreq_freebsd.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/cpufreq_linux.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/cpuinf_linux.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/date_all.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/dio_linux.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/fanspeed_freebsd.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/fs_all.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/gmail_all.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/hddtemp_linux.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/hwmontemp_linux.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/init.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/mbox_all.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/mboxc_all.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/mdir_all.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/mem_freebsd.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/mem_linux.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/mpd_all.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/net_freebsd.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/net_linux.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/notmuch_all.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/org_all.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/os_bsd.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/os_linux.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/pkg_all.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/raid_linux.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/thermal_freebsd.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/thermal_linux.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/uptime_freebsd.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/uptime_linux.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/volume_freebsd.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/volume_linux.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/weather_all.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/wifi_linux.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/wifiiw_linux.lua

References

Summary

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