How To Install catfish on Fedora 34

catfish is A handy file search tool

Introduction

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

What is `catfish`

Catfish is a handy file searching tool. The interface is intentionally lightweight and simple, using only GTK+3. You can configure it to your needs by using several command line options.

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

Install catfish 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 catfish using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install catfish

Install catfish 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 catfish using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install catfish

How To Uninstall catfish on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove catfish

catfish Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/catfish
/usr/bin/catfish-py3
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish-4.16.0-py3.9.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish/CatfishPrefsDialog.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish/CatfishSearchEngine.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish/CatfishWindow.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish/__pycache__/CatfishPrefsDialog.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish/__pycache__/CatfishPrefsDialog.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish/__pycache__/CatfishSearchEngine.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish/__pycache__/CatfishSearchEngine.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish/__pycache__/CatfishWindow.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish/__pycache__/CatfishWindow.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish_lib
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish_lib/Builder.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish_lib/CatfishSettings.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish_lib/PrefsDialog.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish_lib/SudoDialog.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish_lib/Thumbnailer.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish_lib/Window.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish_lib/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish_lib/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish_lib/__pycache__/Builder.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish_lib/__pycache__/Builder.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish_lib/__pycache__/CatfishSettings.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish_lib/__pycache__/CatfishSettings.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish_lib/__pycache__/PrefsDialog.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish_lib/__pycache__/PrefsDialog.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish_lib/__pycache__/SudoDialog.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish_lib/__pycache__/SudoDialog.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish_lib/__pycache__/Thumbnailer.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish_lib/__pycache__/Thumbnailer.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish_lib/__pycache__/Window.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish_lib/__pycache__/Window.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish_lib/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish_lib/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish_lib/__pycache__/catfishconfig.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish_lib/__pycache__/catfishconfig.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish_lib/__pycache__/helpers.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish_lib/__pycache__/helpers.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish_lib/catfishconfig.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish_lib/helpers.py
/usr/libexec/catfish
/usr/share/applications/catfish.desktop
/usr/share/catfish
/usr/share/catfish/ui
/usr/share/catfish/ui/CatfishPreferences.ui
/usr/share/catfish/ui/CatfishWindow.ui
/usr/share/catfish/ui/catfish-wl-headerbar.png
/usr/share/catfish/ui/catfish-wl-titlebar.png
/usr/share/catfish/ui/catfish_preferences.xml
/usr/share/catfish/ui/catfish_window.xml
/usr/share/doc/catfish
/usr/share/doc/catfish/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/catfish/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/catfish/README.md
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/org.xfce.catfish.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/org.xfce.catfish.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/org.xfce.catfish.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/org.xfce.catfish.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/org.xfce.catfish.svg
/usr/share/licenses/catfish
/usr/share/licenses/catfish/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/af/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_AU/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/hy_AM/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/hye/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/ie/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/kab/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/ku/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/si/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/sq/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/catfish.1.gz
/usr/share/metainfo/catfish.appdata.xml
/usr/bin/catfish
/usr/bin/catfish-py3
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish-4.16.1-py3.9.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish/CatfishPrefsDialog.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish/CatfishSearchEngine.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish/CatfishWindow.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish/__pycache__/CatfishPrefsDialog.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish/__pycache__/CatfishPrefsDialog.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish/__pycache__/CatfishSearchEngine.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish/__pycache__/CatfishSearchEngine.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish/__pycache__/CatfishWindow.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish/__pycache__/CatfishWindow.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish_lib
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish_lib/Builder.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish_lib/CatfishSettings.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish_lib/PrefsDialog.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish_lib/SudoDialog.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish_lib/Thumbnailer.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish_lib/Window.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish_lib/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish_lib/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish_lib/__pycache__/Builder.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish_lib/__pycache__/Builder.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish_lib/__pycache__/CatfishSettings.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish_lib/__pycache__/CatfishSettings.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish_lib/__pycache__/PrefsDialog.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish_lib/__pycache__/PrefsDialog.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish_lib/__pycache__/SudoDialog.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish_lib/__pycache__/SudoDialog.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish_lib/__pycache__/Thumbnailer.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish_lib/__pycache__/Thumbnailer.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish_lib/__pycache__/Window.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish_lib/__pycache__/Window.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish_lib/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish_lib/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish_lib/__pycache__/catfishconfig.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish_lib/__pycache__/catfishconfig.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish_lib/__pycache__/helpers.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish_lib/__pycache__/helpers.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish_lib/catfishconfig.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish_lib/helpers.py
/usr/libexec/catfish
/usr/share/applications/catfish.desktop
/usr/share/catfish
/usr/share/catfish/ui
/usr/share/catfish/ui/CatfishPreferences.ui
/usr/share/catfish/ui/CatfishWindow.ui
/usr/share/catfish/ui/catfish-wl-headerbar.png
/usr/share/catfish/ui/catfish-wl-titlebar.png
/usr/share/catfish/ui/catfish_preferences.xml
/usr/share/catfish/ui/catfish_window.xml
/usr/share/doc/catfish
/usr/share/doc/catfish/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/catfish/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/catfish/README.md
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/org.xfce.catfish.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/org.xfce.catfish.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/org.xfce.catfish.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/org.xfce.catfish.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/org.xfce.catfish.svg
/usr/share/licenses/catfish
/usr/share/licenses/catfish/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/af/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_AU/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/hy_AM/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/hye/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/ie/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/kab/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/ku/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/si/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/sq/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/catfish.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/catfish.1.gz
/usr/share/metainfo/catfish.appdata.xml

References

catfish website

Summary

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