How To Install cellwriter on Fedora 34

cellwriter is Grid-entry natural handwriting input panel

Introduction

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

What is cellwriter

CellWriter is a grid-entry natural handwriting input panel. As you write characters into the cells, your writing is instantly recognized at the character level. When you press ‘Enter’ on the panel, the input you entered is sent to the currently focused application as if typed on the keyboard. Works well on a Wacom tablet, TabletPC, or any device with a stylus.

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

Install cellwriter 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 cellwriter using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install cellwriter

Install cellwriter 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 cellwriter using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cellwriter

How To Uninstall cellwriter on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove cellwriter

cellwriter Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/cellwriter
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/13
/usr/lib/.build-id/13/6fff2a0ed0ecd201baa05353998aeaeb3e3fec
/usr/share/applications/cellwriter.desktop
/usr/share/cellwriter
/usr/share/cellwriter/profile
/usr/share/cellwriter/wordfreq
/usr/share/doc/cellwriter
/usr/share/doc/cellwriter/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/cellwriter/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/cellwriter/README
/usr/share/doc/cellwriter/TODO
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/cellwriter.svg
/usr/share/man/man1/cellwriter.1.gz
/usr/share/pixmaps/cellwriter.xpm

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Summary

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