How To Install jgmenu on Fedora 34

jgmenu is Simple X11 application menu

Introduction

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

What is jgmenu

A simple, independent and contemporary-looking X11 menu, designed for scripting, ricing and tweaking. Useful for tint2, polymenu, cairo-dock, plank, unity, openbox, i3, dwm and other light environments.

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

Install jgmenu 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 jgmenu using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install jgmenu

Install jgmenu 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 jgmenu using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install jgmenu

How To Uninstall jgmenu on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove jgmenu

jgmenu Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/jgmenu
/usr/bin/jgmenu_run
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/39
/usr/lib/.build-id/39/3eda239449d453b3f89403373694c0f06498f0
/usr/lib/.build-id/4b
/usr/lib/.build-id/4b/8933c8c0f198047494746e78843c62d232eeb0
/usr/lib/.build-id/58
/usr/lib/.build-id/58/ddbf7f2e05715cff136db5f8545a7e9993c5a3
/usr/lib/.build-id/5f
/usr/lib/.build-id/5f/759b32c1ee59facd7a6568ffc1e89d935a325d
/usr/lib/.build-id/6e
/usr/lib/.build-id/6e/93758ed6d29f04c88ebd295a84328610e47607
/usr/lib/.build-id/76
/usr/lib/.build-id/76/ac9c37b3a97574f9c292cd118412be6bc61160
/usr/lib/.build-id/8a
/usr/lib/.build-id/8a/4cd97352a2c32c196a9a7ac91aad65dcc7fab2
/usr/lib/.build-id/96
/usr/lib/.build-id/96/e1f799254c83cb11993648ed4b830b88dc329a
/usr/lib/.build-id/ba
/usr/lib/.build-id/ba/c3c2bfcc2d07300f872b56bacd5ac45a24dd86
/usr/libexec/jgmenu/jgmenu-apps
/usr/libexec/jgmenu/jgmenu-config
/usr/libexec/jgmenu/jgmenu-greeneye
/usr/libexec/jgmenu/jgmenu-hide-app.sh
/usr/libexec/jgmenu/jgmenu-i18n
/usr/libexec/jgmenu/jgmenu-init.sh
/usr/libexec/jgmenu/jgmenu-ob
/usr/libexec/jgmenu/jgmenu-obtheme
/usr/libexec/jgmenu/jgmenu-socket
/usr/libexec/jgmenu/jgmenu-themes.sh
/usr/libexec/jgmenu/jgmenu-unity-hack.py
/usr/share/applications/jgmenu.desktop
/usr/share/doc/jgmenu
/usr/share/doc/jgmenu/README.md
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/jgmenu.svg
/usr/share/licenses/jgmenu
/usr/share/licenses/jgmenu/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/jgmenu-apps.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/jgmenu-i18n.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/jgmenu-ob.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/jgmenu.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/jgmenu_run.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/jgmenututorial.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/jgmenuunicode.7.gz

References

Summary

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