How To Install grimshot on Fedora 34

grimshot is Helper for screenshots within sway

Introduction

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

What is grimshot

Grimshot is an easy to use screenshot tool for sway. It relies on grim, slurp and jq to do the heavy lifting, and mostly provides an easy to use interface.

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

Install grimshot 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 grimshot using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install grimshot

Install grimshot 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 grimshot using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install grimshot

How To Uninstall grimshot on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove grimshot

grimshot Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/grimshot
/usr/share/man/man1/grimshot.1.gz

References

Summary

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