How To Install featherpad on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install featherpad on Fedora 34.
What is featherpad
FeatherPad is a lightweight Qt5 plain-text editor for Linux. It is independent of any desktop environment and has * Drag-and-drop support, including tab detachment and attachment; * X11 virtual desktop awareness (using tabs on current desktop but opening a new window on another); * An optionally permanent search-bar with a different search entry for each tab; * Instant highlighting of found matches when searching; * A docked window for text replacement; * Support for showing line numbers and jumping to a specific line; * Automatic detection of text encoding as far as possible and optional saving with encoding; * Syntax highlighting for common programming languages; * Printing; * Text zooming; * Appropriate but non-interrupting prompts;
We can use yum or dnf to install featherpad on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install featherpad.
Install featherpad 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 featherpad using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install featherpad
Install featherpad 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 featherpad using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install featherpad
How To Uninstall featherpad on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the featherpad package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove featherpad
featherpad Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/featherpad
/usr/bin/fpad
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0b
/usr/lib/.build-id/0b/d75f3641ba33b406895b7dc7f43c53cf047d22
/usr/share/applications/featherpad.desktop
/usr/share/doc/featherpad
/usr/share/doc/featherpad/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/featherpad/INSTALL
/usr/share/doc/featherpad/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/featherpad/README.md
/usr/share/featherpad
/usr/share/featherpad/help
/usr/share/featherpad/help_ja
/usr/share/featherpad/help_pt_BR
/usr/share/featherpad/translations
/usr/share/featherpad/translations/featherpad_ar_DZ.qm
/usr/share/featherpad/translations/featherpad_cs.qm
/usr/share/featherpad/translations/featherpad_cy.qm
/usr/share/featherpad/translations/featherpad_da.qm
/usr/share/featherpad/translations/featherpad_de.qm
/usr/share/featherpad/translations/featherpad_el.qm
/usr/share/featherpad/translations/featherpad_eo.qm
/usr/share/featherpad/translations/featherpad_es.qm
/usr/share/featherpad/translations/featherpad_fa.qm
/usr/share/featherpad/translations/featherpad_fr.qm
/usr/share/featherpad/translations/featherpad_he.qm
/usr/share/featherpad/translations/featherpad_hu.qm
/usr/share/featherpad/translations/featherpad_id.qm
/usr/share/featherpad/translations/featherpad_it.qm
/usr/share/featherpad/translations/featherpad_ja.qm
/usr/share/featherpad/translations/featherpad_ko.qm
/usr/share/featherpad/translations/featherpad_lt.qm
/usr/share/featherpad/translations/featherpad_nb_NO.qm
/usr/share/featherpad/translations/featherpad_nl.qm
/usr/share/featherpad/translations/featherpad_pl.qm
/usr/share/featherpad/translations/featherpad_pt_BR.qm
/usr/share/featherpad/translations/featherpad_pt_PT.qm
/usr/share/featherpad/translations/featherpad_ru.qm
/usr/share/featherpad/translations/featherpad_sk_SK.qm
/usr/share/featherpad/translations/featherpad_tr.qm
/usr/share/featherpad/translations/featherpad_zh_CN.qm
/usr/share/featherpad/translations/featherpad_zh_TW.qm
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/featherpad.svg
/usr/share/licenses/featherpad
/usr/share/licenses/featherpad/COPYING
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install featherpad on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.