How To Install clipit on Fedora 34

clipit is A lightweight, fully featured GTK+ clipboard manager

Introduction

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

What is clipit

ClipIt is a lightweight, fully featured GTK+ clipboard manager. It was forked from Parcellite, adding additional features and bug-fixes to the project. ClipIts main features are * Save a history of your last copied items * Search through the history * Global hot-keys for most used functions * Execute actions with clipboard items * Exclude specific items from history

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

Install clipit 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 clipit using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install clipit

Install clipit 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 clipit using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install clipit

How To Uninstall clipit on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove clipit

clipit Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/xdg/autostart/clipit-startup.desktop
/usr/bin/clipit
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/7f
/usr/lib/.build-id/7f/994f4b3d43518e9f33be626abb682a7564df80
/usr/share/applications/clipit.desktop
/usr/share/doc/clipit
/usr/share/doc/clipit/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/clipit/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/clipit/README.md
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/clipit-trayicon-offline.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/clipit-trayicon.svg
/usr/share/licenses/clipit
/usr/share/licenses/clipit/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/clipit.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/clipit.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/clipit.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/clipit.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/clipit.mo
/usr/share/locale/es_ES/LC_MESSAGES/clipit.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/clipit.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/clipit.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/clipit.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/clipit.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/clipit.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/clipit.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/clipit.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/clipit.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/clipit.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/clipit.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/clipit.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/clipit.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/clipit.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/clipit.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/clipit.1.gz
/usr/share/metainfo/clipit.appdata.xml

References

Summary

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