How To Install alacarte on Fedora 34

alacarte is Menu editor for the GNOME desktop

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install alacarte on Fedora 34.

What is `alacarte`

Alacarte is a graphical menu editor that lets you edit, add, and delete menu entries. It follows the freedesktop.org menu specification and should work with any desktop environment that uses this specification.

We can use yum or dnf to install alacarte on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install alacarte.

Install alacarte on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo dnf -y install alacarte

Install alacarte on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install alacarte using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install alacarte

How To Uninstall alacarte on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove alacarte

alacarte Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/alacarte
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/Alacarte
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/Alacarte/ItemEditor.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/Alacarte/MainWindow.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/Alacarte/MenuEditor.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/Alacarte/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/Alacarte/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/Alacarte/__pycache__/ItemEditor.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/Alacarte/__pycache__/ItemEditor.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/Alacarte/__pycache__/MainWindow.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/Alacarte/__pycache__/MainWindow.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/Alacarte/__pycache__/MenuEditor.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/Alacarte/__pycache__/MenuEditor.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/Alacarte/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/Alacarte/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/Alacarte/__pycache__/config.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/Alacarte/__pycache__/config.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/Alacarte/__pycache__/util.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/Alacarte/__pycache__/util.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/Alacarte/config.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/Alacarte/util.py
/usr/share/alacarte
/usr/share/alacarte/alacarte.ui
/usr/share/alacarte/directory-editor.ui
/usr/share/alacarte/launcher-editor.ui
/usr/share/applications/alacarte.desktop
/usr/share/doc/alacarte
/usr/share/doc/alacarte/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/alacarte/README
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/alacarte.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/alacarte.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/alacarte.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/alacarte.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/alacarte.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/alacarte.png
/usr/share/licenses/alacarte
/usr/share/licenses/alacarte/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/af/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/an/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/be@latin/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/bem/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_IN/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/br/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/brx/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/crh/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/cy/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/dz/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/en@shaw/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_CA/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/fur/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/fy/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/hy/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/io/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/ka/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/kg/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/km/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/kn/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/ku/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/mai/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/mg/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/mk/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/mn/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/nds/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/or/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/ps/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/si/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/sq/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/sw/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/ug/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/uz@cyrillic/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_HK/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/locale/zu/LC_MESSAGES/alacarte.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/alacarte.1.gz

References

alacarte website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install alacarte on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.