How To Install aterm on Fedora 34

aterm is Afterstep XVT, VT102 emulator for the X Window system

Introduction

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

What is aterm

aterm, version 1.00 is a colour vt102 terminal emulator, based on rxvt 2.4.8 with Alfredo Kojima´s additions of fast transparency, intended as an xterm(1) replacement for users who do not require fea- tures such as Tektronix 4014 emulation and toolkit-style configurabil- ity. As a result, aterm uses much less swap space – a significant advantage on a machine serving many X sessions.

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

Install aterm 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 aterm using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install aterm

Install aterm 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 aterm using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install aterm

How To Uninstall aterm on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove aterm

aterm Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/aterm
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/4e
/usr/lib/.build-id/4e/e96a2d6637a9b03c506d81fec4a6b31d776fe5
/usr/share/applications/aterm.desktop
/usr/share/doc/aterm
/usr/share/doc/aterm/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/aterm/ChangeLog.0.4
/usr/share/doc/aterm/ChangeLog.rxvt
/usr/share/doc/aterm/FAQ
/usr/share/doc/aterm/README.Unix98PTY
/usr/share/doc/aterm/README.greek
/usr/share/doc/aterm/README.menu
/usr/share/doc/aterm/README.thai
/usr/share/doc/aterm/README.xvt
/usr/share/doc/aterm/example.menu
/usr/share/doc/aterm/jedmenu.sl
/usr/share/doc/aterm/menu
/usr/share/doc/aterm/rxvt.menu
/usr/share/doc/aterm/terminal.menu
/usr/share/man/man1/aterm.1.gz

References

Summary

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