How To Install consolation on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install consolation on Fedora 34.
What is consolation
Consolation is a daemon that provide copy-paste and scrolling support to the Linux console. It is based on the libinput library and supports all pointer devices and settings provided by this library, Similar software include gpm and jamd.
We can use yum or dnf to install consolation on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install consolation.
Install consolation 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 consolation using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install consolation
Install consolation 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 consolation using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install consolation
How To Uninstall consolation on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the consolation package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove consolation
consolation Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/43
/usr/lib/.build-id/43/c74bec61c8ff69e0855ebd53c8168a8b76d741
/usr/lib/systemd/system/consolation.service
/usr/sbin/consolation
/usr/share/doc/consolation
/usr/share/doc/consolation/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/consolation/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/consolation/README
/usr/share/licenses/consolation
/usr/share/licenses/consolation/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man8/consolation.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install consolation on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.