How To Install foot on Fedora 34

foot is Fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator

Introduction

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

What is foot

Fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator. Features * Fast * Lightweight, in dependencies, on-disk and in-memory * Wayland native * DE agnostic * Server/daemon mode * User configurable font fallback * On-the-fly font resize * On-the-fly DPI font size adjustment * Scrollback search * Keyboard driven URL detection * Color emoji support * IME (via text-input-v3) * Multi-seat * Synchronized Updates support * Sixel image support

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

Install foot 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 foot using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install foot

Install foot 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 foot using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install foot

How To Uninstall foot on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove foot

foot Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/foot
/usr/bin/footclient
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1f
/usr/lib/.build-id/1f/f7cc5c82145da126d73c9a8601c0d9aaf95ac7
/usr/lib/.build-id/e4
/usr/lib/.build-id/e4/0e9cf7870295d122893506779efb195884c186
/usr/share/applications/foot-server.desktop
/usr/share/applications/foot.desktop
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/foot
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/footclient
/usr/share/doc/foot
/usr/share/doc/foot/CHANGELOG.md
/usr/share/doc/foot/README.md
/usr/share/fish
/usr/share/fish/vendor_completions.d
/usr/share/fish/vendor_completions.d/foot.fish
/usr/share/fish/vendor_completions.d/footclient.fish
/usr/share/foot
/usr/share/foot/foot.ini
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/foot.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/foot.svg
/usr/share/licenses/foot
/usr/share/licenses/foot/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/foot.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/footclient.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/foot.ini.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/foot-ctlseqs.7.gz
/usr/share/zsh
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_foot
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_footclient
/usr/bin/foot
/usr/bin/footclient
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/99
/usr/lib/.build-id/99/9de4a247486d24190b593bfbc830be395f44bc
/usr/lib/.build-id/e2
/usr/lib/.build-id/e2/3c3c84d256dd61613f34728e2814ad1afaaf64
/usr/share/applications/foot-server.desktop
/usr/share/applications/foot.desktop
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/foot
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/footclient
/usr/share/doc/foot
/usr/share/doc/foot/CHANGELOG.md
/usr/share/doc/foot/README.md
/usr/share/fish
/usr/share/fish/vendor_completions.d
/usr/share/fish/vendor_completions.d/foot.fish
/usr/share/fish/vendor_completions.d/footclient.fish
/usr/share/foot
/usr/share/foot/foot.ini
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/foot.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/foot.svg
/usr/share/licenses/foot
/usr/share/licenses/foot/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/foot.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/footclient.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/foot.ini.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/foot-ctlseqs.7.gz
/usr/share/zsh
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_foot
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_footclient

References

Summary

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