How To Install evtest on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install evtest on Fedora 34.
What is evtest
evtest is a simple utility to query information about input devices and watch the event stream generated by input devices.
We can use yum or dnf to install evtest on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install evtest.
Install evtest 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 evtest using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install evtest
Install evtest 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 evtest using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install evtest
How To Uninstall evtest on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the evtest package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove evtest
evtest Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/evtest
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/01
/usr/lib/.build-id/01/3cae2b8b673652119a89b33a447cb37d11f2fc
/usr/share/doc/evtest
/usr/share/doc/evtest/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/evtest.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install evtest on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.