How To Install fawkes on Fedora 34

fawkes is Robot Software Framework

Introduction

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

What is fawkes

Fawkes is a component-based software framework for robotic real-time applications for various platforms and domains. It was developed for cognitive robotics real-time applications like soccer and service robotics and supports fast information exchange and efficient combination and coordination of different components to suit the needs of mobile robots operating in uncertain environments. Install this meta package to get a useful Fawkes base system.

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

Install fawkes 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 fawkes using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fawkes

Install fawkes 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 fawkes using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fawkes

How To Uninstall fawkes on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove fawkes

fawkes Package Contents on Fedora 34

References

Summary

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