How To Install zeitgeist on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install zeitgeist in Fedora 36. zeitgeist is Framework providing Desktop activity awareness

Introduction

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

What is zeitgeist

Zeitgeist is a service which logs the users’s activities and events (files opened, websites visites, conversations hold with other people, etc.) and makes relevant information available to other applications. Note that this package only contains the daemon, which you can use together with several different user interfaces.

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

Install zeitgeist 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 zeitgeist using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install zeitgeist

Install zeitgeist 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 zeitgeist using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install zeitgeist

How To Uninstall zeitgeist on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove zeitgeist

zeitgeist Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/xdg/autostart/zeitgeist-datahub.desktop
/usr/bin/zeitgeist-daemon
/usr/bin/zeitgeist-datahub
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/32
/usr/lib/.build-id/32/a8518155bf1cfc06828e4d851ef5f212b30677
/usr/lib/.build-id/60
/usr/lib/.build-id/60/e91516b99c0739f1d7bcb5d092d1308f8a76e3
/usr/lib/.build-id/8b
/usr/lib/.build-id/8b/c090a0bb53ce673f85f29713fd792667b6b150
/usr/lib/systemd/user/zeitgeist-fts.service
/usr/lib/systemd/user/zeitgeist.service
/usr/libexec/zeitgeist
/usr/libexec/zeitgeist/zeitgeist-fts
/usr/share/bash-completion
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/zeitgeist-daemon
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.gnome.zeitgeist.Engine.service
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.gnome.zeitgeist.SimpleIndexer.service
/usr/share/doc/zeitgeist
/usr/share/doc/zeitgeist/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/zeitgeist/NEWS
/usr/share/licenses/zeitgeist
/usr/share/licenses/zeitgeist/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/zeitgeist/COPYING.GPL
/usr/share/man/man1/zeitgeist-daemon.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/zeitgeist-datahub.1.gz
/usr/share/zeitgeist
/usr/share/zeitgeist/ontology
/usr/share/zeitgeist/ontology/nao.trig
/usr/share/zeitgeist/ontology/ncal.trig
/usr/share/zeitgeist/ontology/nco.trig
/usr/share/zeitgeist/ontology/nfo.trig
/usr/share/zeitgeist/ontology/nie.trig
/usr/share/zeitgeist/ontology/nmm.trig
/usr/share/zeitgeist/ontology/nmo.trig
/usr/share/zeitgeist/ontology/zg.trig

References

Summary

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