How To Install jfbterm on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install jfbterm on Fedora 34.
What is jfbterm
JFBTERM/ME takes advantages of framebuffer device that is supported since linux kernel 2.2.x (at least on ix86 architecture) and make it enable to display multilingual text on console. It is developed on ix86 architecture, and it will works on other architectures such as linux/ppc. Features * It works with framebuffer device instead of VGA. * It supports pcf format font * It is not so fast because it doesn’t take any advantages of accelaration. * It also support coding systems other than ISO-2022, such as SHIFT-JIS by using iconv(3). * It is userland program.
We can use yum or dnf to install jfbterm on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install jfbterm.
Install jfbterm 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 jfbterm using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install jfbterm
Install jfbterm 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 jfbterm using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install jfbterm
How To Uninstall jfbterm on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the jfbterm package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove jfbterm
jfbterm Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/jfbterm.conf
/etc/security/console.perms.d/60-jfbterm.perms
/usr/bin/jfbterm
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/e5
/usr/lib/.build-id/e5/e570da625be4a374e4625ecdde6909e863f9e3
/usr/share/doc/jfbterm
/usr/share/doc/jfbterm/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/jfbterm/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/jfbterm/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/jfbterm/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/jfbterm/README
/usr/share/doc/jfbterm/README.ja
/usr/share/doc/jfbterm/jfbterm.termcap
/usr/share/fonts
/usr/share/fonts/jfbterm
/usr/share/fonts/jfbterm/8x13-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/jfbterm/8x13-ISO8859-14.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/jfbterm/8x13-ISO8859-15.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/jfbterm/8x13-ISO8859-2.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/jfbterm/8x13-ISO8859-5.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/jfbterm/8x13-ISO8859-7.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/jfbterm/8x13-ISO8859-8.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/jfbterm/8x13-ISO8859-9.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/jfbterm/8x16.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/jfbterm/b16.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/jfbterm/gb16fs.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/jfbterm/hanglg16.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/jfbterm/jisksp16-1990.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/jfbterm/shnm8x16r.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/jfbterm/shnmk16.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/jfbterm/vt100-graphics.pcf.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/jfbterm.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/jfbterm.conf.5.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install jfbterm on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
