How To Install alexandria on Fedora 34

alexandria is Book collection manager

Introduction

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

What is alexandria

Alexandria is a GNOME application to help you manage your book collection.

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

Install alexandria 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 alexandria using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install alexandria

Install alexandria 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 alexandria using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install alexandria

How To Uninstall alexandria on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove alexandria

alexandria Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/gconf/schemas/alexandria.schemas
/usr/bin/alexandria
/usr/share/alexandria
/usr/share/alexandria/glade
/usr/share/alexandria/glade/acquire_dialog__builder.glade
/usr/share/alexandria/glade/book_properties_dialog__builder.glade
/usr/share/alexandria/glade/main_app__builder.glade
/usr/share/alexandria/glade/new_book_dialog__builder.glade
/usr/share/alexandria/glade/preferences_dialog__builder.glade
/usr/share/alexandria/icons
/usr/share/alexandria/icons/alexandria.png
/usr/share/alexandria/icons/alexandria_small.png
/usr/share/alexandria/icons/book.png
/usr/share/alexandria/icons/book_icon.png
/usr/share/alexandria/icons/book_small.png
/usr/share/alexandria/icons/cuecat.png
/usr/share/alexandria/icons/cuecat_inactive.png
/usr/share/alexandria/icons/favorite_tag.png
/usr/share/alexandria/icons/less.png
/usr/share/alexandria/icons/library.png
/usr/share/alexandria/icons/library_small.png
/usr/share/alexandria/icons/lookup.png
/usr/share/alexandria/icons/more.png
/usr/share/alexandria/icons/no_cover.png
/usr/share/alexandria/icons/smart_library.png
/usr/share/alexandria/icons/smart_library_small.png
/usr/share/alexandria/icons/star_set.png
/usr/share/alexandria/icons/star_unset.png
/usr/share/alexandria/icons/view_as_icons.png
/usr/share/alexandria/icons/view_as_list.png
/usr/share/alexandria/ui
/usr/share/alexandria/ui/menus.xml
/usr/share/alexandria/ui/popups.xml
/usr/share/alexandria/web-themes
/usr/share/alexandria/web-themes/clean
/usr/share/alexandria/web-themes/clean/clean.css
/usr/share/alexandria/web-themes/clean/preview.jpg
/usr/share/alexandria/web-themes/list
/usr/share/alexandria/web-themes/list/list.css
/usr/share/alexandria/web-themes/list/preview.jpg
/usr/share/applications/alexandria.desktop
/usr/share/doc/alexandria
/usr/share/doc/alexandria/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/alexandria/BUGS
/usr/share/doc/alexandria/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/alexandria/ChangeLog.0
/usr/share/doc/alexandria/FAQ
/usr/share/doc/alexandria/HACKING
/usr/share/doc/alexandria/INSTALL.md
/usr/share/doc/alexandria/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/alexandria/README.md
/usr/share/doc/alexandria/TODO.md
/usr/share/doc/alexandria/cuecat_support.rdoc
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/C
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/C/about.xml
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/C/adding-books.xml
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/C/alexandria.xml
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/C/bugs.xml
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/C/editing-book-properties.xml
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/C/exporting.xml
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/C/figures
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/C/figures/adding_books_acquire_from_scanner_process.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/C/figures/adding_books_add_by_isbn.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/C/figures/adding_books_isbn_import.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/C/figures/adding_books_manual_details.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/C/figures/adding_books_rename_library_after_import.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/C/figures/adding_books_search_results.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/C/figures/editing_book_properties_info.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/C/figures/editing_book_properties_loaning.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/C/figures/exporting_information_html.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/C/figures/getting_started_first_launched.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/C/figures/searching_filtering_views_list_view.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/C/figures/searching_filtering_views_list_view_search.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/C/figures/settings_providers_new_z3950.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/C/figures/smart_libraries_new_smart_library.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/C/figures/working_with_libraries_library_pane.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/C/getting-started.xml
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/C/gnu-fdl-1.2.xml
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/C/introduction.xml
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/C/searching.xml
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/C/settings.xml
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/C/smart-libraries.xml
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/C/working-with-libraries.xml
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/fr
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/fr/alexandria.xml
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/fr/figures
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/fr/figures/alexandria_add_button.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/fr/figures/alexandria_add_by_isbn_1.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/fr/figures/alexandria_add_by_search_1.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/fr/figures/alexandria_add_manually.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/fr/figures/alexandria_add_z3950.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/fr/figures/alexandria_close_button.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/fr/figures/alexandria_edit_info.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/fr/figures/alexandria_export_web_page.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/fr/figures/alexandria_importing.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/fr/figures/alexandria_library_pane.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/fr/figures/alexandria_list_view.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/fr/figures/alexandria_list_view_search.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/fr/figures/alexandria_loaning.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/fr/figures/alexandria_main_window.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/fr/figures/alexandria_remove_button.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/ja
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/ja/about.xml
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/ja/adding-books.xml
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/ja/alexandria.xml
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/ja/bugs.xml
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/ja/editing-book-properties.xml
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/ja/exporting.xml
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/ja/figures
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/ja/figures/adding_books_acquire_from_scanner_process.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/ja/figures/adding_books_add_by_isbn.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/ja/figures/adding_books_isbn_import.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/ja/figures/adding_books_manual_details.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/ja/figures/adding_books_rename_library_after_import.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/ja/figures/adding_books_search_results.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/ja/figures/editing_book_properties_info.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/ja/figures/editing_book_properties_loaning.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/ja/figures/exporting_information_html.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/ja/figures/getting_started_first_launched.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/ja/figures/searching_filtering_views_list_view.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/ja/figures/searching_filtering_views_list_view_search.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/ja/figures/settings_providers_new_z3950.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/ja/figures/smart_libraries_new_smart_library.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/ja/figures/working_with_libraries_library_pane.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/ja/getting-started.xml
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/ja/gnu-fdl-1.2.xml
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/ja/introduction.xml
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/ja/searching.xml
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/ja/settings.xml
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/ja/smart-libraries.xml
/usr/share/gnome/help/alexandria/ja/working-with-libraries.xml
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/alexandria.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/alexandria.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/alexandria.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/alexandria.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/alexandria.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/alexandria.svg
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/alexandria.mo
/usr/share/locale/cy/LC_MESSAGES/alexandria.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/alexandria.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/alexandria.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/alexandria.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/alexandria.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/alexandria.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/alexandria.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/alexandria.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/alexandria.mo
/usr/share/locale/mk/LC_MESSAGES/alexandria.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/alexandria.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/alexandria.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/alexandria.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/alexandria.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/alexandria.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/alexandria.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/alexandria.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/alexandria.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/alexandria.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/alexandria.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/alexandria.1.gz
/usr/share/metainfo/alexandria.appdata.xml
/usr/share/omf/alexandria
/usr/share/omf/alexandria/alexandria-C.omf
/usr/share/omf/alexandria/alexandria-fr.omf
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/about.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/book_providers
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/book_providers.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/book_providers/adlibris.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/book_providers/amazon_aws.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/book_providers/amazon_ecs_util.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/book_providers/barnes_and_noble.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/book_providers/douban.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/book_providers/proxis.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/book_providers/pseudomarc.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/book_providers/siciliano.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/book_providers/thalia_provider.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/book_providers/web.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/book_providers/worldcat.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/book_providers/z3950.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/config.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/console.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/default_preferences.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/execution_queue.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/export_format.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/export_library.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/import_library.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/import_library_csv.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/library_collection.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/library_sort_order.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/library_store.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/logging.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/models
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/models/book.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/models/library.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/net.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/preferences.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/scanners
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/scanners.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/scanners/cue_cat.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/scanners/keyboard.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/smart_library.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/ui
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/ui.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/ui/about_dialog.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/ui/acquire_dialog.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/ui/alert_dialog.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/ui/bad_isbns_dialog.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/ui/barcode_animation.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/ui/book_properties_dialog.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/ui/book_properties_dialog_base.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/ui/builder_base.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/ui/calendar_popup.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/ui/callbacks.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/ui/columns.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/ui/completion_models.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/ui/confirm_erase_dialog.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/ui/conflict_while_copying_dialog.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/ui/dndable.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/ui/error_dialog.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/ui/export_dialog.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/ui/icons.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/ui/iconview.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/ui/iconview_tooltips.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/ui/import_dialog.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/ui/init.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/ui/keep_bad_isbn_dialog.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/ui/libraries_combo.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/ui/listview.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/ui/main_app.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/ui/misc_dialogs.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/ui/multi_drag_treeview.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/ui/new_book_dialog.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/ui/new_book_dialog_manual.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/ui/new_provider_dialog.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/ui/new_smart_library_dialog.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/ui/preferences_dialog.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/ui/provider_preferences_base_dialog.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/ui/provider_preferences_dialog.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/ui/really_delete_dialog.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/ui/sidepane_manager.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/ui/skip_entry_dialog.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/ui/smart_library_properties_dialog.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/ui/smart_library_properties_dialog_base.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/ui/smart_library_rule_box.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/ui/sound.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/ui/ui_manager.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/undo_manager.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/version.rb
/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/alexandria/web_themes.rb
/usr/share/sounds/alexandria
/usr/share/sounds/alexandria/bad_scan.ogg
/usr/share/sounds/alexandria/good_scan.ogg
/usr/share/sounds/alexandria/scanning.ogg

References

Summary

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