How To Install fbterm on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fbterm on Fedora 34.
What is fbterm
FbTerm is a fast terminal emulator for Linux with frame-buffer device. Features include - mostly as fast as terminal of Linux kernel while accelerated scrolling is enabled on frame-buffer device - select font with fontconfig and draw text with freetype2, same as Qt/Gtk+ based GUI apps - dynamically create/destroy up to 10 windows initially running default shell - record scroll back history for every window - auto-detect text encoding with current locale, support double width scripts like Chinese, Japanese etc - switch between configurable additional text encodings with hot keys on the fly - copy/past selected text between windows with mouse when gpm server is running
We can use yum or dnf to install fbterm on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fbterm.
Install fbterm 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 fbterm using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install fbterm
Install fbterm 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 fbterm using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install fbterm
How To Uninstall fbterm on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the fbterm package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove fbterm
fbterm Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/fbterm
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a1
/usr/lib/.build-id/a1/a1bfe137b51a231c855c2d531ab55707ebedd3
/usr/share/doc/fbterm
/usr/share/doc/fbterm/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/fbterm/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/fbterm/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/fbterm/README
/usr/share/man/man1/fbterm.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fbterm on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
