How To Install fbpanel on Fedora 34
fbpanel is A lightweight X11 desktop panel
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fbpanel on Fedora 34.
What is fbpanel
fbpanel is a lightweight X11 desktop panel. It works with any ICCCM / NETWM compliant window manager such as sawfish, metacity, openbox, xfwm4, or KDE. It features tasklist, pager, launchbar, clock, menu and systray.
We can use yum or dnf to install fbpanel on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fbpanel.
Install fbpanel 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 fbpanel using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install fbpanel
Install fbpanel 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 fbpanel using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install fbpanel
How To Uninstall fbpanel on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the fbpanel package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove fbpanel
fbpanel Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/fbpanel
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/00
/usr/lib/.build-id/00/627959cef31be98cfc9bddb0f489c3a941e39e
/usr/lib/.build-id/02
/usr/lib/.build-id/02/daad0506bd816e62bb150aeb4c9e8b8e711dc2
/usr/lib/.build-id/13
/usr/lib/.build-id/13/55174937f6eb97d6e986d8f29735a3d96172f4
/usr/lib/.build-id/15
/usr/lib/.build-id/15/2e0b554217d0419bd45b9abbb45c80274d8ddd
/usr/lib/.build-id/15/b197ae8813074a56676cdd2e8e474003e07792
/usr/lib/.build-id/3c
/usr/lib/.build-id/3c/68c8b27b626e89458dfbf59064f9a009920adc
/usr/lib/.build-id/43
/usr/lib/.build-id/43/b575a26707b3d291df976b8fca11b627a30c62
/usr/lib/.build-id/44
/usr/lib/.build-id/44/f26805328ec62ee4c152febeea2c2159114faf
/usr/lib/.build-id/50
/usr/lib/.build-id/50/342e7fd3fdfda8f975e5566911a2ed8d68b99d
/usr/lib/.build-id/6a
/usr/lib/.build-id/6a/4213061ea7e4b1f8003845ce40f3b671f3d1ff
/usr/lib/.build-id/7b
/usr/lib/.build-id/7b/9b1a15ee98ead89a973809fd4e46d594e4b3bc
/usr/lib/.build-id/7e
/usr/lib/.build-id/7e/624b5b615933ca31f488c6b97f97b0c0591f61
/usr/lib/.build-id/81
/usr/lib/.build-id/81/f48dd56f7f016194ac745d4119c55143f3d6ab
/usr/lib/.build-id/90
/usr/lib/.build-id/90/a910786b4bf93435bcfb32b2dfaaa59080ec11
/usr/lib/.build-id/93
/usr/lib/.build-id/93/714995abea0146e3386c41b7d92518f7ed7b11
/usr/lib/.build-id/9b
/usr/lib/.build-id/9b/ad74e11e1f13ee8ae34aea7e70ff4d7d5788e4
/usr/lib/.build-id/ae
/usr/lib/.build-id/ae/f8fd412aa1ebd0c5f44ab6a9425ca8158d6ac8
/usr/lib/.build-id/c2
/usr/lib/.build-id/c2/6e6164437027f8749816fe866e1ab21b923d09
/usr/lib/.build-id/cc
/usr/lib/.build-id/cc/45137eace86078d42cc9c6fab5e196b045dbf6
/usr/lib/.build-id/d2
/usr/lib/.build-id/d2/859eb47f42dd5b850f0cc6d946d05207f57132
/usr/lib/.build-id/d9
/usr/lib/.build-id/d9/8000678c1b87219a6b2a97ae7083d8ec7a1a5d
/usr/lib/.build-id/f1
/usr/lib/.build-id/f1/ac6c0abb05a0f364f1e8d37c80725fa93b884a
/usr/lib/.build-id/fc
/usr/lib/.build-id/fc/ece25838193ba019474b0482b661efec4f6923
/usr/lib/.build-id/ff
/usr/lib/.build-id/ff/cae74fa22ebcd0294df312bfd074301cb93027
/usr/lib64/fbpanel
/usr/lib64/fbpanel/libbattery.so
/usr/lib64/fbpanel/libchart.so
/usr/lib64/fbpanel/libcpu.so
/usr/lib64/fbpanel/libdclock.so
/usr/lib64/fbpanel/libdeskno.so
/usr/lib64/fbpanel/libdeskno2.so
/usr/lib64/fbpanel/libgenmon.so
/usr/lib64/fbpanel/libicons.so
/usr/lib64/fbpanel/libimage.so
/usr/lib64/fbpanel/liblaunchbar.so
/usr/lib64/fbpanel/libmem.so
/usr/lib64/fbpanel/libmem2.so
/usr/lib64/fbpanel/libmenu.so
/usr/lib64/fbpanel/libmeter.so
/usr/lib64/fbpanel/libnet.so
/usr/lib64/fbpanel/libpager.so
/usr/lib64/fbpanel/libseparator.so
/usr/lib64/fbpanel/libspace.so
/usr/lib64/fbpanel/libtaskbar.so
/usr/lib64/fbpanel/libtclock.so
/usr/lib64/fbpanel/libtray.so
/usr/lib64/fbpanel/libuser.so
/usr/lib64/fbpanel/libwincmd.so
/usr/libexec/fbpanel
/usr/libexec/fbpanel/make_profile
/usr/libexec/fbpanel/xlogout
/usr/share/doc/fbpanel
/usr/share/doc/fbpanel/CHANGELOG
/usr/share/doc/fbpanel/CREDITS
/usr/share/doc/fbpanel/NOTES
/usr/share/doc/fbpanel/README.md
/usr/share/fbpanel
/usr/share/fbpanel/default
/usr/share/fbpanel/images
/usr/share/fbpanel/images/battery_0.png
/usr/share/fbpanel/images/battery_1.png
/usr/share/fbpanel/images/battery_2.png
/usr/share/fbpanel/images/battery_3.png
/usr/share/fbpanel/images/battery_4.png
/usr/share/fbpanel/images/battery_5.png
/usr/share/fbpanel/images/battery_6.png
/usr/share/fbpanel/images/battery_7.png
/usr/share/fbpanel/images/battery_8.png
/usr/share/fbpanel/images/battery_charging_0.png
/usr/share/fbpanel/images/battery_charging_1.png
/usr/share/fbpanel/images/battery_charging_2.png
/usr/share/fbpanel/images/battery_charging_3.png
/usr/share/fbpanel/images/battery_charging_4.png
/usr/share/fbpanel/images/battery_charging_5.png
/usr/share/fbpanel/images/battery_charging_6.png
/usr/share/fbpanel/images/battery_charging_7.png
/usr/share/fbpanel/images/battery_charging_8.png
/usr/share/fbpanel/images/battery_na.png
/usr/share/fbpanel/images/dclock_glyphs.png
/usr/share/fbpanel/images/default.xpm
/usr/share/fbpanel/images/logo.png
/usr/share/fbpanel/images/start-here.png
/usr/share/fbpanel/images/system-reboot.png
/usr/share/fbpanel/images/system-shutdown.png
/usr/share/fbpanel/pager
/usr/share/licenses/fbpanel
/usr/share/licenses/fbpanel/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/fbpanel.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fbpanel on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.