How To Install caribou on Fedora 34

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Introduction

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

What is `caribou`

Caribou is a text entry application that currently manifests itself as a simplified in-place on-screen keyboard. caribou 0.4.21 25.fc34 x86_64 162 k caribou-0.4.21-25.fc34.src.rpm fedora A simplified in-place on-screen keyboard https LGPLv2+ Caribou is a text entry application that currently manifests itself as a simplified in-place on-screen keyboard.

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

Install caribou 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 caribou using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install caribou

Install caribou 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 caribou using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install caribou

How To Uninstall caribou on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove caribou

caribou Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/xdg/autostart/caribou-autostart.desktop
/usr/bin/caribou-preferences
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/25
/usr/lib/.build-id/25/54ca6e0eae652f8bfe5e9a6b0858c97fc0439d
/usr/lib/.build-id/f0
/usr/lib/.build-id/f0/5f2b771d734de4d2ae37563d715b906c8ee81d
/usr/lib/girepository-1.0/Caribou-1.0.typelib
/usr/lib/gnome-settings-daemon-3.0/gtk-modules/caribou-gtk-module.desktop
/usr/lib/libcaribou.so.0
/usr/lib/libcaribou.so.0.0.0
/usr/libexec/caribou
/usr/share/caribou
/usr/share/caribou/layouts
/usr/share/caribou/layouts/fullscale
/usr/share/caribou/layouts/fullscale/de.xml
/usr/share/caribou/layouts/fullscale/us.xml
/usr/share/caribou/layouts/scan
/usr/share/caribou/layouts/scan/us.xml
/usr/share/caribou/layouts/tablet
/usr/share/caribou/layouts/tablet/de.xml
/usr/share/caribou/layouts/tablet/us.xml
/usr/share/caribou/layouts/touch
/usr/share/caribou/layouts/touch/ara.xml
/usr/share/caribou/layouts/touch/de.xml
/usr/share/caribou/layouts/touch/fr.xml
/usr/share/caribou/layouts/touch/il.xml
/usr/share/caribou/layouts/touch/us.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.gnome.Caribou.Daemon.service
/usr/share/doc/caribou
/usr/share/doc/caribou/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/caribou/README
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.caribou.gschema.xml
/usr/share/licenses/caribou
/usr/share/licenses/caribou/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/an/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_IN/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/fur/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/km/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/kn/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/mk/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/ne/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/or/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/si/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/tg/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/ug/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_HK/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/etc/xdg/autostart/caribou-autostart.desktop
/usr/bin/caribou-preferences
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/58
/usr/lib/.build-id/58/59c622144c6041c3abb7bf9512061d7d8f8f99
/usr/lib/.build-id/5c
/usr/lib/.build-id/5c/4204bbd44fc804d5099e43d882b5314982c6b7
/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0/Caribou-1.0.typelib
/usr/lib64/gnome-settings-daemon-3.0/gtk-modules/caribou-gtk-module.desktop
/usr/lib64/libcaribou.so.0
/usr/lib64/libcaribou.so.0.0.0
/usr/libexec/caribou
/usr/share/caribou
/usr/share/caribou/layouts
/usr/share/caribou/layouts/fullscale
/usr/share/caribou/layouts/fullscale/de.xml
/usr/share/caribou/layouts/fullscale/us.xml
/usr/share/caribou/layouts/scan
/usr/share/caribou/layouts/scan/us.xml
/usr/share/caribou/layouts/tablet
/usr/share/caribou/layouts/tablet/de.xml
/usr/share/caribou/layouts/tablet/us.xml
/usr/share/caribou/layouts/touch
/usr/share/caribou/layouts/touch/ara.xml
/usr/share/caribou/layouts/touch/de.xml
/usr/share/caribou/layouts/touch/fr.xml
/usr/share/caribou/layouts/touch/il.xml
/usr/share/caribou/layouts/touch/us.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.gnome.Caribou.Daemon.service
/usr/share/doc/caribou
/usr/share/doc/caribou/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/caribou/README
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.caribou.gschema.xml
/usr/share/licenses/caribou
/usr/share/licenses/caribou/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/an/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_IN/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/fur/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/km/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/kn/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/mk/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/ne/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/or/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/si/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/tg/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/ug/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_HK/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/caribou.mo

References

[caribou website](https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Caribou https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Caribou)

Summary

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