How To Install gv on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gv on Fedora 34.
What is gv
GNU gv is a user interface for the Ghostscript PostScript(TM) interpreter. Gv can display PostScript and PDF documents on an X Window System.
We can use yum or dnf to install gv on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gv.
Install gv 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 gv using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install gv
Install gv 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 gv using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install gv
How To Uninstall gv on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the gv package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove gv
gv Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/ghostview
/usr/bin/gv
/usr/bin/gv-update-userconfig
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/cd
/usr/lib/.build-id/cd/b44f2fa884356bee2808d7a5c7dcfbf7c28c02
/usr/lib/.build-id/cd/b44f2fa884356bee2808d7a5c7dcfbf7c28c02.1
/usr/share/applications/gv.desktop
/usr/share/doc/gv
/usr/share/doc/gv/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/gv/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/gv/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/gv/README
/usr/share/gv
/usr/share/gv/GV
/usr/share/gv/gv_system.ad
/usr/share/gv/safe-gs-workdir
/usr/share/info/gv.info.gz
/usr/share/licenses/gv
/usr/share/licenses/gv/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/gv-update-userconfig.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/gv.1.gz
/usr/share/pixmaps/gv.png
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gv on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.