How To Install cawbird on Fedora 34
cawbird is Fork of the Corebird GTK Twitter client that continues to work with Twitter
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cawbird on Fedora 34.
What is cawbird
Cawbird is a fork of the Corebird Twitter client from Baedert, which became unsupported after Twitter disabled the streaming API. Cawbird works with the new APIs and includes a few fixes and modifications that have historically been patched in to IBBoard’s custom Corebird build on his personal Open Build Service account.
We can use yum or dnf to install cawbird on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cawbird.
Install cawbird 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 cawbird using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install cawbird
Install cawbird 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 cawbird using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install cawbird
How To Uninstall cawbird on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the cawbird package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove cawbird
cawbird Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/cawbird
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a0
/usr/lib/.build-id/a0/e3ed99bd4dc2103e99a1f2a508eb368cd80f79
/usr/share/applications/uk.co.ibboard.cawbird.desktop
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/uk.co.ibboard.cawbird.service
/usr/share/doc/cawbird
/usr/share/doc/cawbird/README.md
/usr/share/doc/cawbird/notes.md
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/uk.co.ibboard.cawbird.gschema.xml
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/uk.co.ibboard.cawbird.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/uk.co.ibboard.cawbird.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/uk.co.ibboard.cawbird.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/uk.co.ibboard.cawbird.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/uk.co.ibboard.cawbird.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/96x96/apps/uk.co.ibboard.cawbird.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/uk.co.ibboard.cawbird.svg
/usr/share/licenses/cawbird
/usr/share/licenses/cawbird/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/de_DE/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/es_MX/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/es_VE/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/gd/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr_BA@latin/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk_UA/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/cawbird.1.gz
/usr/share/metainfo/uk.co.ibboard.cawbird.appdata.xml
/usr/bin/cawbird
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/d5
/usr/lib/.build-id/d5/6bc7b8f1b1a3aa03fe838b0d1daeb593db8990
/usr/share/applications/uk.co.ibboard.cawbird.desktop
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/uk.co.ibboard.cawbird.service
/usr/share/doc/cawbird
/usr/share/doc/cawbird/README.md
/usr/share/doc/cawbird/notes.md
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/uk.co.ibboard.cawbird.gschema.xml
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/uk.co.ibboard.cawbird.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/uk.co.ibboard.cawbird.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/uk.co.ibboard.cawbird.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/uk.co.ibboard.cawbird.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/uk.co.ibboard.cawbird.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/96x96/apps/uk.co.ibboard.cawbird.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/uk.co.ibboard.cawbird.svg
/usr/share/licenses/cawbird
/usr/share/licenses/cawbird/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/de_DE/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/es_MX/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/es_VE/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr_BA@latin/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk_UA/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/cawbird.1.gz
/usr/share/metainfo/uk.co.ibboard.cawbird.appdata.xml
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cawbird on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.