How To Install jkmeter on Fedora 34

jkmeter is Horizontal or vertical bar-graph audio levels meter

Introduction

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

What is jkmeter

jkmeter is a horizontal or vertical bar-graph level meter based on the ideas of mastering guru Bob Katz. See <http follow the links on ’level practices’. This is the type of meter you want for live recording, mixing and mastering. It probably makes no sense to use it on all tracks of a DAW, where keeping digital level within limits is the main purpose of metering.

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

Install jkmeter 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 jkmeter using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install jkmeter

Install jkmeter 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 jkmeter using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install jkmeter

How To Uninstall jkmeter on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove jkmeter

jkmeter Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/jkmeter
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c4
/usr/lib/.build-id/c4/239d21f014db78318d1ff93d914a8fede06ec8
/usr/share/applications/jkmeter.desktop
/usr/share/doc/jkmeter
/usr/share/doc/jkmeter/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/jkmeter/README
/usr/share/jkmeter
/usr/share/jkmeter/k14-meterH0.png
/usr/share/jkmeter/k14-meterH1.png
/usr/share/jkmeter/k14-meterV0.png
/usr/share/jkmeter/k14-meterV1.png
/usr/share/jkmeter/k14-scaleH.png
/usr/share/jkmeter/k14-scaleV.png
/usr/share/jkmeter/k20-meterH0.png
/usr/share/jkmeter/k20-meterH1.png
/usr/share/jkmeter/k20-meterV0.png
/usr/share/jkmeter/k20-meterV1.png
/usr/share/jkmeter/k20-scaleH.png
/usr/share/jkmeter/k20-scaleV.png
/usr/share/jkmeter/stc-meterH0.png
/usr/share/jkmeter/stc-meterH1.png
/usr/share/jkmeter/stc-meterV0.png
/usr/share/jkmeter/stc-meterV1.png
/usr/share/jkmeter/stc-scaleH.png
/usr/share/jkmeter/stc-scaleV.png
/usr/share/licenses/jkmeter
/usr/share/licenses/jkmeter/COPYING
/usr/share/pixmaps/jkmeter.png

References

Summary

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