How To Install foliate on Fedora 34

foliate is Simple and modern GTK eBook reader

Introduction

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

What is `foliate`

A simple and modern GTK eBook viewer, built with GJS and Epub.js.

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

Install foliate 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 foliate using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install foliate

Install foliate 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 foliate using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install foliate

How To Uninstall foliate on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove foliate

foliate Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate
/usr/share/applications/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate.desktop
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/KindleUnpack
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/KindleUnpack/__init__.py
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/KindleUnpack/compatibility_utils.py
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/KindleUnpack/kindleunpack.py
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/KindleUnpack/mobi_cover.py
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/KindleUnpack/mobi_dict.py
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/KindleUnpack/mobi_header.py
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/KindleUnpack/mobi_html.py
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/KindleUnpack/mobi_index.py
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/KindleUnpack/mobi_k8proc.py
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/KindleUnpack/mobi_k8resc.py
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/KindleUnpack/mobi_nav.py
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/KindleUnpack/mobi_ncx.py
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/KindleUnpack/mobi_opf.py
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/KindleUnpack/mobi_pagemap.py
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/KindleUnpack/mobi_sectioner.py
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/KindleUnpack/mobi_split.py
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/KindleUnpack/mobi_uncompress.py
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/KindleUnpack/mobi_utils.py
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/KindleUnpack/mobiml2xhtml.py
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/KindleUnpack/unipath.py
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/KindleUnpack/unpack_structure.py
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/client.html
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/epub-viewer-cb.html
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/epub-viewer-nocsp.html
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/epub-viewer.css
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/epub-viewer.html
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/libarchivejs
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/libarchivejs/libarchivejs-1.3.0
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/libarchivejs/libarchivejs-1.3.0/LICENSE
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/libarchivejs/libarchivejs-1.3.0/README.md
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/libarchivejs/libarchivejs-1.3.0/dist
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/libarchivejs/libarchivejs-1.3.0/dist/wasm-gen
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/libarchivejs/libarchivejs-1.3.0/dist/wasm-gen/libarchive.js
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/libarchivejs/libarchivejs-1.3.0/dist/wasm-gen/libarchive.wasm
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/libarchivejs/libarchivejs-1.3.0/dist/worker-bundle.js
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/libarchivejs/libarchivejs-1.3.0/package.json
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/libarchivejs/libarchivejs-1.3.0/src
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/libarchivejs/libarchivejs-1.3.0/src/compressed-file.js
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/libarchivejs/libarchivejs-1.3.0/src/libarchive.js
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/libarchivejs/libarchivejs-1.3.0/src/webworker
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/libarchivejs/libarchivejs-1.3.0/src/webworker/archive-reader.js
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/libarchivejs/libarchivejs-1.3.0/src/webworker/wasm-gen
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/libarchivejs/libarchivejs-1.3.0/src/webworker/wasm-gen/libarchive.js
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/libarchivejs/libarchivejs-1.3.0/src/webworker/wasm-gen/libarchive.wasm
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/libarchivejs/libarchivejs-1.3.0/src/webworker/wasm-module.js
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/libarchivejs/libarchivejs-1.3.0/src/webworker/worker.js
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/assets/libarchivejs/main.js
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate.data.gresource
/usr/share/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate.src.gresource
/usr/share/doc/foliate
/usr/share/doc/foliate/README.md
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate.gschema.xml
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/symbolic/apps/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate-symbolic.svg
/usr/share/licenses/foliate
/usr/share/licenses/foliate/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate.mo
/usr/share/locale/ie/LC_MESSAGES/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate.mo
/usr/share/metainfo/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate.appdata.xml

References

foliate website

Summary

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