How To Install fbreader on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fbreader on Fedora 34.
What is fbreader
FBReader is an e-book reader, with the following main features * Supports several formats (Weasel), TCR (psion), RTF, OEB, OpenReader, mobipocket, plain text. * Direct reading from tar, zip, gzip and bzip2 archives. (Multiple books in one archive are supported.) * Automatic library building. * Automatic encoding detection is supported. * Automatically generated contents table. * Embedded images support. * Footnotes/hyperlinks support. * Position indicator. * Keeps the last open book and the last read positions for all opened books between runs. * List of last opened books. * Automatic hyphenations. Liang’s algorithm is used. The same algorithm is used in TeX, and TeX hyphenation patterns are used in FBReader. Patterns for Czech, English, Esperanto, French, German and Russian are included in the current version. * Text search. * Full-screen mode. * Screen rotation by 90, 180 and 270 degrees.
We can use yum or dnf to install fbreader on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fbreader.
Install fbreader 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 fbreader using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install fbreader
Install fbreader 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 fbreader using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install fbreader
How To Uninstall fbreader on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the fbreader package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove fbreader
fbreader Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/FBReader
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a3
/usr/lib/.build-id/a3/de79bdf966fb85dc4e0512458dedf7c204af8c
/usr/share/FBReader
/usr/share/FBReader/default
/usr/share/FBReader/default/config.xml
/usr/share/FBReader/default/external.xml
/usr/share/FBReader/default/fullscreen_toolbar.xml
/usr/share/FBReader/default/keymap.xml
/usr/share/FBReader/default/styles.xml
/usr/share/FBReader/default/toolbar.xml
/usr/share/FBReader/formats
/usr/share/FBReader/formats/fb2
/usr/share/FBReader/formats/fb2/FBReaderVersion.ent
/usr/share/FBReader/formats/fb2/fb2genres.xml
/usr/share/FBReader/formats/html
/usr/share/FBReader/formats/html/html.ent
/usr/share/FBReader/formats/xhtml
/usr/share/FBReader/formats/xhtml/xhtml-lat1.ent
/usr/share/FBReader/formats/xhtml/xhtml-special.ent
/usr/share/FBReader/formats/xhtml/xhtml-symbol.ent
/usr/share/FBReader/help
/usr/share/FBReader/help/MiniHelp.bg.fb2
/usr/share/FBReader/help/MiniHelp.cs.fb2
/usr/share/FBReader/help/MiniHelp.de.fb2
/usr/share/FBReader/help/MiniHelp.en.fb2
/usr/share/FBReader/help/MiniHelp.es.fb2
/usr/share/FBReader/help/MiniHelp.fi.fb2
/usr/share/FBReader/help/MiniHelp.fr.fb2
/usr/share/FBReader/help/MiniHelp.he.fb2
/usr/share/FBReader/help/MiniHelp.hu.fb2
/usr/share/FBReader/help/MiniHelp.id.fb2
/usr/share/FBReader/help/MiniHelp.it.fb2
/usr/share/FBReader/help/MiniHelp.lt.fb2
/usr/share/FBReader/help/MiniHelp.nl.fb2
/usr/share/FBReader/help/MiniHelp.ru.fb2
/usr/share/FBReader/help/MiniHelp.sv.fb2
/usr/share/FBReader/help/MiniHelp.uk.fb2
/usr/share/FBReader/help/MiniHelp.vi.fb2
/usr/share/FBReader/help/MiniHelp.zh.fb2
/usr/share/FBReader/resources
/usr/share/FBReader/resources/ar.xml
/usr/share/FBReader/resources/bg.xml
/usr/share/FBReader/resources/cs.xml
/usr/share/FBReader/resources/de.xml
/usr/share/FBReader/resources/en.xml
/usr/share/FBReader/resources/eo.xml
/usr/share/FBReader/resources/es.xml
/usr/share/FBReader/resources/fi.xml
/usr/share/FBReader/resources/fr.xml
/usr/share/FBReader/resources/he.xml
/usr/share/FBReader/resources/hu.xml
/usr/share/FBReader/resources/id.xml
/usr/share/FBReader/resources/it.xml
/usr/share/FBReader/resources/lt.xml
/usr/share/FBReader/resources/nl.xml
/usr/share/FBReader/resources/pl.xml
/usr/share/FBReader/resources/ru.xml
/usr/share/FBReader/resources/sv.xml
/usr/share/FBReader/resources/uk.xml
/usr/share/FBReader/resources/vi.xml
/usr/share/FBReader/resources/zh.xml
/usr/share/applications/FBReader.desktop
/usr/share/doc/fbreader
/usr/share/doc/fbreader/ChangeLog
/usr/share/licenses/fbreader
/usr/share/licenses/fbreader/LICENSE
/usr/share/pixmaps/FBReader
/usr/share/pixmaps/FBReader.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/FBReader/addBook.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/FBReader/advancedSearchOnNetwork.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/FBReader/back_button.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/FBReader/back_button_disabled.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/FBReader/bookInfo.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/FBReader/booktree-author.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/FBReader/booktree-book.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/FBReader/booktree-catalog.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/FBReader/booktree-tag.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/FBReader/byAuthor.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/FBReader/byTag.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/FBReader/fb2.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/FBReader/findNext.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/FBReader/findPrevious.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/FBReader/folder.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/FBReader/forward_button.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/FBReader/forward_button_disabled.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/FBReader/gotoHome.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/FBReader/html.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/FBReader/mobipocket.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/FBReader/oeb.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/FBReader/openreader.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/FBReader/palm.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/FBReader/plucker.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/FBReader/preferences.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/FBReader/redo.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/FBReader/refresh-icon-1.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/FBReader/refresh-icon-2.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/FBReader/refresh-icon.svg
/usr/share/pixmaps/FBReader/rotate.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/FBReader/rtf.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/FBReader/search.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/FBReader/search_icon.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/FBReader/searchresult.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/FBReader/showHelp.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/FBReader/showLibrary.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/FBReader/showNetLibrary.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/FBReader/showNetworkLibrary.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/FBReader/showReading.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/FBReader/showRecent.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/FBReader/spinner.gif
/usr/share/pixmaps/FBReader/tcr.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/FBReader/toc.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/FBReader/undo.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/FBReader/unknown.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/FBReader/upfolder.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/FBReader/weasel.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/FBReader/zipfolder.png
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fbreader on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.