How To Install clawsker on Fedora 34

clawsker is Dialog to edit Claws Mail’s hidden preferences

Introduction

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

What is clawsker

Clawsker is a Perl-GTK3 applet to edit hidden preferences for Claws Mail, and to do it in a safe and user friendly way, preventing users from raw editing of configuration files. Claws Mail is a fast and lightweight Mail User Agent by the Claws Mail Team.

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

Install clawsker 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 clawsker using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install clawsker

Install clawsker 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 clawsker using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install clawsker

How To Uninstall clawsker on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove clawsker

clawsker Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/clawsker
/usr/share/applications/clawsker.desktop
/usr/share/doc/clawsker
/usr/share/doc/clawsker/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/clawsker/ChangeLog.old
/usr/share/doc/clawsker/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/clawsker/README
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/clawsker.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/clawsker.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/clawsker.png
/usr/share/licenses/clawsker
/usr/share/licenses/clawsker/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/clawsker.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/clawsker.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/clawsker.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/clawsker.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/clawsker.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/clawsker.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/clawsker.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/clawsker.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_PT/LC_MESSAGES/clawsker.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/clawsker.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/clawsker.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/clawsker.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/clawsker.1.gz

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Summary

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