How To Install fox on Fedora 34

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Introduction

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

What is fox

FOX is a C++ based Toolkit for developing Graphical User Interfaces easily and effectively. It offers a wide, and growing, collection of Controls, and provides state of the art facilities such as drag and drop, selection, as well as OpenGL widgets for 3D graphical manipulation. FOX also implements icons, images, and user-convenience features such as status line help, and tooltips. Tooltips may even be used for 3D objects. fox 1.6.57 8.fc34 x86_64 1.0 M fox-1.6.57-8.fc34.src.rpm fedora C++ based Toolkit for developing Graphical User Interfaces http LGPLv2+ with exceptions FOX is a C++ based Toolkit for developing Graphical User Interfaces easily and effectively. It offers a wide, and growing, collection of Controls, and provides state of the art facilities such as drag and drop, selection, as well as OpenGL widgets for 3D graphical manipulation. FOX also implements icons, images, and user-convenience features such as status line help, and tooltips. Tooltips may even be used for 3D objects.

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

Install fox 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 fox using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fox

Install fox 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 fox using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fox

How To Uninstall fox on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove fox

fox Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0c
/usr/lib/.build-id/0c/ff0b635f8862fdd4f3b3d65a5180159681647f
/usr/lib/.build-id/fa
/usr/lib/.build-id/fa/bf9450f37d8730d86f997187be090c3e712175
/usr/lib64/libCHART-1.6.so.0
/usr/lib64/libCHART-1.6.so.0.0.57
/usr/lib64/libFOX-1.6.so.0
/usr/lib64/libFOX-1.6.so.0.0.57
/usr/share/doc/fox
/usr/share/doc/fox/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/fox/README
/usr/share/fox
/usr/share/licenses/fox
/usr/share/licenses/fox/LICENSE
/usr/share/licenses/fox/LICENSE_ADDENDUM
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/66
/usr/lib/.build-id/66/915aa33e5a01809cf02966d6802f00f6d2fcb6
/usr/lib/.build-id/b0
/usr/lib/.build-id/b0/407a8650dc99477bd30627259ba12b6db7fb40
/usr/lib/libCHART-1.6.so.0
/usr/lib/libCHART-1.6.so.0.0.57
/usr/lib/libFOX-1.6.so.0
/usr/lib/libFOX-1.6.so.0.0.57
/usr/share/doc/fox
/usr/share/doc/fox/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/fox/README
/usr/share/fox
/usr/share/licenses/fox
/usr/share/licenses/fox/LICENSE
/usr/share/licenses/fox/LICENSE_ADDENDUM

References

Summary

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