How To Install ephemeral on Fedora 34

ephemeral is Private-by-default, always-incognito browser

Introduction

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

What is `ephemeral`

Browse the Internet in private without leaving a trace of history on your computer. Ephemeral is a stripped down private browser that’s perfect for avoiding persistent cookies or web trackers. Close the window and all traces of your browsing are removed from your device.

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

Install ephemeral 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 ephemeral using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ephemeral

Install ephemeral 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 ephemeral using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ephemeral

How To Uninstall ephemeral on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove ephemeral

ephemeral Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/com.github.cassidyjames.ephemeral
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/7d
/usr/lib/.build-id/7d/28dcc5029939d0bc2248a37c25cba7ab7bb1ac
/usr/share/applications/com.github.cassidyjames.ephemeral.desktop
/usr/share/doc/ephemeral
/usr/share/doc/ephemeral/README.md
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/com.github.cassidyjames.ephemeral.gschema.xml
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/com.github.cassidyjames.ephemeral.svg
/usr/share/licenses/ephemeral
/usr/share/licenses/ephemeral/LICENSE
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/com.github.cassidyjames.ephemeral.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/com.github.cassidyjames.ephemeral.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/com.github.cassidyjames.ephemeral.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/com.github.cassidyjames.ephemeral.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/com.github.cassidyjames.ephemeral.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/com.github.cassidyjames.ephemeral.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/com.github.cassidyjames.ephemeral.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/com.github.cassidyjames.ephemeral.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/com.github.cassidyjames.ephemeral.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/com.github.cassidyjames.ephemeral.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/com.github.cassidyjames.ephemeral.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/com.github.cassidyjames.ephemeral.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/com.github.cassidyjames.ephemeral.mo
/usr/share/metainfo/com.github.cassidyjames.ephemeral.appdata.xml

References

ephemeral website

Summary

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