How To Install ghasher on Fedora 34

ghasher is GUI hasher for GTK+ 2

Introduction

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

What is ghasher

ghasher can easily show the MD5 sum (or md2, md4, sha1, sha, ripemd160, dss1) of a file. Motivation for this utility was that users shouldn’t need to open a command line for checking the MD5 sum of files they download.

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

Install ghasher 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 ghasher using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ghasher

Install ghasher 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 ghasher using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ghasher

How To Uninstall ghasher on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove ghasher

ghasher Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/ghasher
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5e
/usr/lib/.build-id/5e/f8db1007642986b961c69bd945a0ee057c6634
/usr/share/applications/ghasher.desktop
/usr/share/doc/ghasher
/usr/share/doc/ghasher/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/ghasher/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/ghasher/README
/usr/share/doc/ghasher/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/ghasher
/usr/share/licenses/ghasher/LICENSE
/usr/share/pixmaps/hash.xpm

References

Summary

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