How To Install xcowsay on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install xcowsay in Fedora 36. xcowsay is Displays a cute cow and message on your desktop

Introduction

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

What is xcowsay

xcowsay displays a cute cow and message on your desktop. The message can be text or images (with xcowdream) xcowsay can run in daemon mode for sending your cow message with DBus. Inspired by the original cowsay.

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

Install xcowsay 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 xcowsay using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install xcowsay

Install xcowsay 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 xcowsay using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install xcowsay

How To Uninstall xcowsay on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove xcowsay

xcowsay Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/xcowdream
/usr/bin/xcowfortune
/usr/bin/xcowsay
/usr/bin/xcowthink
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/50
/usr/lib/.build-id/50/05857d7a59715aea020078a12c7061be2d09fc
/usr/share/applications/xcowfortune.desktop
/usr/share/doc/xcowsay
/usr/share/doc/xcowsay/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/xcowsay/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/xcowsay/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/xcowsay/README
/usr/share/licenses/xcowsay
/usr/share/licenses/xcowsay/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/xcowsay.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/xcowsay.mo
/usr/share/man/man6/xcowsay.6.gz
/usr/share/xcowsay
/usr/share/xcowsay/cow_large.png
/usr/share/xcowsay/cow_med.png
/usr/share/xcowsay/cow_small.png

References

Summary

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