How To Install gxmessage on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gxmessage on Fedora 34.
What is gxmessage
Gxmassage is a GTK2 based xmessage clone. It pops up a dialog window, displays a given message or question, then waits for the user’s response. That response is returned as the program’s exit code. Because gxmessage is a drop-in alternative to xmessage, gxmessage accepts any option xmessage would, and returns the same exit codes.
We can use yum or dnf to install gxmessage on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gxmessage.
Install gxmessage 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 gxmessage using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install gxmessage
Install gxmessage 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 gxmessage using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install gxmessage
How To Uninstall gxmessage on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the gxmessage package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove gxmessage
gxmessage Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/gxmessage
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a8
/usr/lib/.build-id/a8/053bc5d312725a5b61baa4b5c48d2e17c60612
/usr/share/doc/gxmessage
/usr/share/doc/gxmessage/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/gxmessage/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/gxmessage/COPYING.icon
/usr/share/doc/gxmessage/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/gxmessage/HACKING
/usr/share/doc/gxmessage/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/gxmessage/README
/usr/share/doc/gxmessage/TODO
/usr/share/doc/gxmessage/examples
/usr/share/doc/gxmessage/examples/gtkrc
/usr/share/doc/gxmessage/examples/gxaddress
/usr/share/doc/gxmessage/examples/gxdialup
/usr/share/doc/gxmessage/examples/gxdict
/usr/share/doc/gxmessage/examples/gxman
/usr/share/doc/gxmessage/examples/gxview
/usr/share/doc/gxmessage/examples/nautilus-word-count
/usr/share/gxmessage
/usr/share/gxmessage/allow_noescape
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/gxmessage.png
/usr/share/info/gxmessage.info.gz
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/gxmessage.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_AU/LC_MESSAGES/gxmessage.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_CA/LC_MESSAGES/gxmessage.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/gxmessage.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_NZ/LC_MESSAGES/gxmessage.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/gxmessage.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/gxmessage.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/gxmessage.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gxmessage on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.