How To Install gifview on Fedora 34

gifview is Lightweight animated-GIF viewer

Introduction

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

What is gifview

gifview is a lightweight animated-GIF viewer which can show animations as slideshows or in real time,

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

Install gifview 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 gifview using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gifview

Install gifview 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 gifview using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gifview

How To Uninstall gifview on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove gifview

gifview Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/gifview
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/67
/usr/lib/.build-id/67/e0e3f795abb3126c70e6bdc7298249ae31a307
/usr/share/doc/gifview
/usr/share/doc/gifview/NEWS.md
/usr/share/doc/gifview/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/gifview
/usr/share/licenses/gifview/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/gifview.1.gz

References

Summary

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