How To Install cdw on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cdw on Fedora 34.
What is cdw
cdw is a ncurses based front-end for some command-line tools used for burning data CD and DVD discs and for related tasks. The tools are mkisofs/genisoimage, growisofs, dvd+rw-mediainfo, dvd+rw-format, xorriso. cdw is able to rip tracks from your audio CD to raw audio files. Limited support for copying content of data CD and DVD discs to image files is also provided. cdw can verify correctness of writing ISO9660 image to CD or DVD disc using md5sum or some of programs that verifies SHA hashes.
We can use yum or dnf to install cdw on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cdw.
Install cdw 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 cdw using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install cdw
Install cdw 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 cdw using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install cdw
How To Uninstall cdw on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the cdw package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove cdw
cdw Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/cdw
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/4b
/usr/lib/.build-id/4b/1b5470f45150685969262fd5f895c55470afd1
/usr/share/doc/cdw
/usr/share/doc/cdw/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/cdw/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/cdw/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/cdw/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/cdw/README
/usr/share/doc/cdw/THANKS
/usr/share/man/man1/cdw.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cdw on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
