How To Install gpaste on Fedora 34

gpaste is Clipboard management system

Introduction

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

What is gpaste

GPaste is a clipboard management system. This package provides the D-Bus service and the command-line client.

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

Install gpaste 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 gpaste using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gpaste

Install gpaste 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 gpaste using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gpaste

How To Uninstall gpaste on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove gpaste

gpaste Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/gpaste-client
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/08
/usr/lib/.build-id/08/aff6d5cfaf38befcb1ccb4b53c2269a9ac53f5
/usr/lib/.build-id/74
/usr/lib/.build-id/74/b26111715607e00d49585c8dbab618e4bfb4a6
/usr/lib/systemd/user/org.gnome.GPaste.service
/usr/libexec/gpaste
/usr/libexec/gpaste/gpaste-daemon
/usr/share/bash-completion
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/gpaste-client
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.gnome.GPaste.service
/usr/share/doc/gpaste
/usr/share/doc/gpaste/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/gpaste/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/gpaste/README.md
/usr/share/doc/gpaste/THANKS
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.GPaste.gschema.xml
/usr/share/man/man1/gpaste-client.1.gz
/usr/share/zsh
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_gpaste-client
/usr/bin/gpaste-client
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2e
/usr/lib/.build-id/2e/6153a5cd3ee611b71e99db5267f4d6cdee5ecb
/usr/lib/.build-id/a1
/usr/lib/.build-id/a1/2ba52e14808d376ad8d3227f06df23dccc31db
/usr/lib/systemd/user/org.gnome.GPaste.service
/usr/libexec/gpaste
/usr/libexec/gpaste/gpaste-daemon
/usr/share/bash-completion
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/gpaste-client
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.gnome.GPaste.service
/usr/share/doc/gpaste
/usr/share/doc/gpaste/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/gpaste/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/gpaste/README.md
/usr/share/doc/gpaste/THANKS
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.GPaste.gschema.xml
/usr/share/man/man1/gpaste-client.1.gz
/usr/share/zsh
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_gpaste-client

References

Summary

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