How To Install gtorrentviewer on Fedora 34

gtorrentviewer is A GTK2-based viewer and editor for BitTorrent meta files

Introduction

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

What is gtorrentviewer

GTorrentViewer gives you the ability to see and modify all the possible information from .torrent files without having to start downloading, and the ability to see in real time the current number of seeds and peers on the torrent, so you will always know the status before starting the download.

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

Install gtorrentviewer 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 gtorrentviewer using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gtorrentviewer

Install gtorrentviewer 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 gtorrentviewer using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gtorrentviewer

How To Uninstall gtorrentviewer on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove gtorrentviewer

gtorrentviewer Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/gtorrentviewer
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/16
/usr/lib/.build-id/16/d936ef3b9f395f65db3c9403bc154163a2ff78
/usr/share/GTorrentViewer
/usr/share/GTorrentViewer/pixmaps
/usr/share/GTorrentViewer/pixmaps/about.png
/usr/share/GTorrentViewer/pixmaps/dictionary.png
/usr/share/GTorrentViewer/pixmaps/error.png
/usr/share/GTorrentViewer/pixmaps/gtorrentviewer.png
/usr/share/GTorrentViewer/pixmaps/gtorrentviewer.xpm
/usr/share/GTorrentViewer/pixmaps/info.png
/usr/share/GTorrentViewer/pixmaps/integer.png
/usr/share/GTorrentViewer/pixmaps/list.png
/usr/share/GTorrentViewer/pixmaps/ok.png
/usr/share/GTorrentViewer/pixmaps/string.png
/usr/share/GTorrentViewer/pixmaps/unknown.png
/usr/share/GTorrentViewer/pixmaps/warning.png
/usr/share/applications/gtorrentviewer.desktop
/usr/share/doc/gtorrentviewer
/usr/share/doc/gtorrentviewer/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/gtorrentviewer/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/gtorrentviewer/README
/usr/share/licenses/gtorrentviewer
/usr/share/licenses/gtorrentviewer/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/gtorrentviewer.1.gz
/usr/share/pixmaps/gtorrentviewer.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/gtorrentviewer.xpm

References

Summary

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