How To Install bicon on Fedora 34

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Introduction

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

What is bicon

BiCon is the bidirectional console as presented by Arabeyes. bicon 0.5 13.fc34 x86_64 41 k bicon-0.5-13.fc34.src.rpm fedora Bidirectional Console https LGPLv2+ and Python BiCon is the bidirectional console as presented by Arabeyes.

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

Install bicon 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 bicon using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install bicon

Install bicon 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 bicon using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install bicon

How To Uninstall bicon on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove bicon

bicon Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/bicon
/usr/bin/bicon.bin
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0b
/usr/lib/.build-id/0b/eaaa25a3537aba4a1f44973a809c6c4105f975
/usr/lib/.build-id/0d
/usr/lib/.build-id/0d/df65b196a930986fc6529fe6b5f4a805ce72ab
/usr/lib/.build-id/45
/usr/lib/.build-id/45/bfdbe58e102c8eb89098d1e59ecf7ccccfc658
/usr/lib/bicon/libbconsole.so.0
/usr/lib/bicon/libbconsole.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib/bicon/libbjoining.so.0
/usr/lib/bicon/libbjoining.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/bicon
/usr/share/doc/bicon
/usr/share/doc/bicon/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/bicon/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/bicon/README
/usr/share/man/man1/bicon.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/bicon.bin.1.gz
/usr/bin/bicon
/usr/bin/bicon.bin
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/10
/usr/lib/.build-id/10/41829d37368710e78826cfb28794fb85bdc8b9
/usr/lib/.build-id/78
/usr/lib/.build-id/78/bc89c77fe68f1bd1c969f17d9090471afdd612
/usr/lib/.build-id/7a
/usr/lib/.build-id/7a/316781b79f0aebccd4dabd8a4eea9a12bb6ee5
/usr/lib64/bicon/libbconsole.so.0
/usr/lib64/bicon/libbconsole.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib64/bicon/libbjoining.so.0
/usr/lib64/bicon/libbjoining.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/bicon
/usr/share/doc/bicon
/usr/share/doc/bicon/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/bicon/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/bicon/README
/usr/share/man/man1/bicon.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/bicon.bin.1.gz

References

Summary

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