How To Install ghostwriter on Fedora 34
ghostwriter is Cross-platform, aesthetic, distraction-free Markdown editor
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ghostwriter on Fedora 34.
What is ghostwriter
Ghostwriter is a text editor for Markdown, which is a plain text markup format created by John Gruber. For more information about Markdown, please visit John Gruber’s website at http Ghostwriter provides a relaxing, distraction-free writing environment, whether your masterpiece be that next blog post, your school paper, or your novel.
We can use yum or dnf to install ghostwriter on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ghostwriter.
Install ghostwriter 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 ghostwriter using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ghostwriter
Install ghostwriter 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 ghostwriter using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install ghostwriter
How To Uninstall ghostwriter on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the ghostwriter package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ghostwriter
ghostwriter Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/ghostwriter
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/7e
/usr/lib/.build-id/7e/add9c6cdefd2810e7a6f53bf3deb231303f577
/usr/share/applications/ghostwriter.desktop
/usr/share/doc/ghostwriter
/usr/share/doc/ghostwriter/CHANGELOG.md
/usr/share/doc/ghostwriter/CONTRIBUTING.md
/usr/share/doc/ghostwriter/CREDITS.md
/usr/share/doc/ghostwriter/README.md
/usr/share/ghostwriter
/usr/share/ghostwriter/translations/ghostwriter_ar.qm
/usr/share/ghostwriter/translations/ghostwriter_ca.qm
/usr/share/ghostwriter/translations/ghostwriter_cs.qm
/usr/share/ghostwriter/translations/ghostwriter_de.qm
/usr/share/ghostwriter/translations/ghostwriter_en.qm
/usr/share/ghostwriter/translations/ghostwriter_es.qm
/usr/share/ghostwriter/translations/ghostwriter_fr.qm
/usr/share/ghostwriter/translations/ghostwriter_it.qm
/usr/share/ghostwriter/translations/ghostwriter_ja.qm
/usr/share/ghostwriter/translations/ghostwriter_nl.qm
/usr/share/ghostwriter/translations/ghostwriter_pl.qm
/usr/share/ghostwriter/translations/ghostwriter_pt_BR.qm
/usr/share/ghostwriter/translations/ghostwriter_ru.qm
/usr/share/ghostwriter/translations/ghostwriter_zh.qm
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/ghostwriter.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/ghostwriter.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/ghostwriter.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/ghostwriter.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/ghostwriter.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/ghostwriter.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/ghostwriter.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/ghostwriter.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/ghostwriter.svg
/usr/share/licenses/ghostwriter
/usr/share/licenses/ghostwriter/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/ghostwriter.1.gz
/usr/share/metainfo/ghostwriter.appdata.xml
/usr/bin/ghostwriter
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/dc
/usr/lib/.build-id/dc/6c7a411dd634102bd3d232542d9d8fb982b7f7
/usr/share/applications/ghostwriter.desktop
/usr/share/doc/ghostwriter
/usr/share/doc/ghostwriter/CHANGELOG.md
/usr/share/doc/ghostwriter/CONTRIBUTING.md
/usr/share/doc/ghostwriter/CREDITS.md
/usr/share/doc/ghostwriter/README.md
/usr/share/ghostwriter
/usr/share/ghostwriter/translations/ghostwriter_ar.qm
/usr/share/ghostwriter/translations/ghostwriter_ca.qm
/usr/share/ghostwriter/translations/ghostwriter_cs.qm
/usr/share/ghostwriter/translations/ghostwriter_de.qm
/usr/share/ghostwriter/translations/ghostwriter_en.qm
/usr/share/ghostwriter/translations/ghostwriter_es.qm
/usr/share/ghostwriter/translations/ghostwriter_fr.qm
/usr/share/ghostwriter/translations/ghostwriter_it.qm
/usr/share/ghostwriter/translations/ghostwriter_ja.qm
/usr/share/ghostwriter/translations/ghostwriter_nb_NO.qm
/usr/share/ghostwriter/translations/ghostwriter_nl.qm
/usr/share/ghostwriter/translations/ghostwriter_pl.qm
/usr/share/ghostwriter/translations/ghostwriter_pt_BR.qm
/usr/share/ghostwriter/translations/ghostwriter_ru.qm
/usr/share/ghostwriter/translations/ghostwriter_sv.qm
/usr/share/ghostwriter/translations/ghostwriter_zh.qm
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/ghostwriter.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/ghostwriter.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/ghostwriter.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/ghostwriter.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/ghostwriter.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/ghostwriter.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/ghostwriter.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/ghostwriter.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/ghostwriter.svg
/usr/share/licenses/ghostwriter
/usr/share/licenses/ghostwriter/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/ghostwriter.1.gz
/usr/share/metainfo/ghostwriter.appdata.xml
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ghostwriter on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.