How To Install grsync on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install grsync on Fedora 34.
What is grsync
Grsync is a GUI (Graphical User Interface) for rsync, the commandline directory synchronization tool. It makes use of the GTK libraries and is released under the GPL license, so it is opensource. It is in beta stage and doesn’t support all of rsync features, but can be effectively used to synchronize local directories. For example some people use grsync to synchronize their music collection with removable devices or to backup personal files to a networked drive.
We can use yum or dnf to install grsync on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install grsync.
Install grsync 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 grsync using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install grsync
Install grsync 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 grsync using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install grsync
How To Uninstall grsync on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the grsync package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove grsync
grsync Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/grsync
/usr/bin/grsync-batch
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/36
/usr/lib/.build-id/36/7b71ab565213aa4eba4352d825c32c5bde674c
/usr/share/applications/grsync.desktop
/usr/share/doc/grsync
/usr/share/doc/grsync/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/grsync/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/grsync/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/grsync/README
/usr/share/grsync
/usr/share/grsync/grsync.glade
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/mimetypes/application-x-grsync-session.png
/usr/share/licenses/grsync
/usr/share/licenses/grsync/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/ca_ES/LC_MESSAGES/grsync.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs_CZ/LC_MESSAGES/grsync.mo
/usr/share/locale/de_DE/LC_MESSAGES/grsync.mo
/usr/share/locale/el_GR/LC_MESSAGES/grsync.mo
/usr/share/locale/es_ES/LC_MESSAGES/grsync.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr_FR/LC_MESSAGES/grsync.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl_ES/LC_MESSAGES/grsync.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr_HR/LC_MESSAGES/grsync.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu_HU/LC_MESSAGES/grsync.mo
/usr/share/locale/id_ID/LC_MESSAGES/grsync.mo
/usr/share/locale/it_IT/LC_MESSAGES/grsync.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb_NO/LC_MESSAGES/grsync.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl_NL/LC_MESSAGES/grsync.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/grsync.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_PT/LC_MESSAGES/grsync.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru_RU/LC_MESSAGES/grsync.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv_SE/LC_MESSAGES/grsync.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr_TR/LC_MESSAGES/grsync.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/grsync.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/grsync.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/grsync-batch.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/grsync.1.gz
/usr/share/mime/packages/grsync.xml
/usr/share/pixmaps/grsync-busy.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/grsync.png
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install grsync on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.