How To Install giver on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install giver on Fedora 34.
What is giver
Giver is a simple file sharing desktop application. Other people running Giver on your network are automatically discovered and you can send files to them by simply dragging the files to their photo or icon shown in Giver. There is no knowledge or set up needed beyond what the person looks like or their name to use Giver.
We can use yum or dnf to install giver on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install giver.
Install giver 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 giver using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install giver
Install giver 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 giver using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install giver
How To Uninstall giver on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the giver package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove giver
giver Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/giver
/usr/lib64/giver
/usr/lib64/giver/Giver.exe
/usr/lib64/giver/Giver.exe.config
/usr/share/applications/giver.desktop
/usr/share/doc/giver
/usr/share/doc/giver/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/giver/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/giver/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/giver/README
/usr/share/doc/giver/TODO
/usr/share/giver
/usr/share/giver/sounds
/usr/share/giver/sounds/notify.wav
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/giver.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/giver.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/giveroff.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/giver.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/giver.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/blankphoto.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/giver.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/gravatar.png
/usr/share/licenses/giver
/usr/share/licenses/giver/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/giver.mo
/usr/share/pixmaps/blankphoto.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/giver-16.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/giver-24.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/giver-256.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/giver-32.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/giver-48.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/giveroff-24.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/gravatar.png
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install giver on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.