How To Install feedbackd on Fedora 34

feedbackd is Feedback library for GNOME Feedback library for GNOME

Introduction

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

What is feedbackd

feedbackd provides a DBus daemon (feedbackd) to act on events to provide haptic, visual and audio feedback. It offers a library (libfeedback) and GObject introspection bindings to ease using it from applications. feedbackd 0.0.0+git20210125 1.fc34 x86_64 63 k feedbackd-0.0.0+git20210125-1.fc34.src.rpm fedora Feedback library for GNOME https GPLv3+ feedbackd provides a DBus daemon (feedbackd) to act on events to provide haptic, visual and audio feedback. It offers a library (libfeedback) and GObject introspection bindings to ease using it from applications.

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

Install feedbackd 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 feedbackd using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install feedbackd

Install feedbackd 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 feedbackd using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install feedbackd

How To Uninstall feedbackd on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove feedbackd

feedbackd Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/fbcli
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/14
/usr/lib/.build-id/14/0655d6b165b325daa45453eee12e1d4c4220c9
/usr/lib/.build-id/91
/usr/lib/.build-id/91/a6fa0c380eeff691ee157c4a957c9c1570f94b
/usr/lib/.build-id/b6
/usr/lib/.build-id/b6/d1d9be3ddf7acab78483c9b35fe7354773c6b4
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/90-feedbackd.rules
/usr/libexec/fbd-ledctrl
/usr/libexec/feedbackd
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.sigxcpu.Feedback.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.sigxcpu.Feedback.service
/usr/share/feedbackd
/usr/share/feedbackd/themes
/usr/share/feedbackd/themes/default.json
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.sigxcpu.feedbackd.gschema.xml
/usr/bin/fbcli
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/31
/usr/lib/.build-id/31/229146b656fbab1eda0ac41ef390e5a32ef127
/usr/lib/.build-id/7c
/usr/lib/.build-id/7c/d8f7d20b242e29a1ff70c8762eabd3511ec6d8
/usr/lib/.build-id/99
/usr/lib/.build-id/99/e28064f85051ecc8c9371aa03213c4714af5c3
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/90-feedbackd.rules
/usr/libexec/fbd-ledctrl
/usr/libexec/feedbackd
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.sigxcpu.Feedback.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.sigxcpu.Feedback.service
/usr/share/feedbackd
/usr/share/feedbackd/themes
/usr/share/feedbackd/themes/default.json
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.sigxcpu.feedbackd.gschema.xml

References

Summary

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