How To Install gphotofs on Fedora 34

gphotofs is A FUSE filesystem module to mount your camera as a filesystem

Introduction

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

What is gphotofs

A filesystem client based on libgphoto2 that exposes supported cameras as filesystems; while some cameras implement the USB Mass Storage class and already appear as filesystems (making this program redundant), many use the Picture Transfer Protocol (PTP) or some other custom protocol. But as long as the camera is supported by libgphoto2, it can be mounted as a filesystem using this program.

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

Install gphotofs 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 gphotofs using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gphotofs

Install gphotofs 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 gphotofs using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gphotofs

How To Uninstall gphotofs on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove gphotofs

gphotofs Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/gphotofs
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/74
/usr/lib/.build-id/74/ac6c258f96a7dba839441a0c6edcf762a05865
/usr/share/doc/gphotofs
/usr/share/doc/gphotofs/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/gphotofs/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/gphotofs/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/gphotofs/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/gphotofs/README

References

Summary

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