How To Install kdialog on Fedora 34

kdialog is Nice dialog boxes from shell scripts

Introduction

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

What is kdialog

KDialog can be used to show nice dialog boxes from shell scripts.

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

Install kdialog 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 kdialog using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install kdialog

Install kdialog 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 kdialog using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install kdialog

How To Uninstall kdialog on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove kdialog

kdialog Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/kdialog
/usr/bin/kdialog_progress_helper
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/32
/usr/lib/.build-id/32/f8c0af3d05aa8a5993e705220c84db1e640513
/usr/lib/.build-id/f4
/usr/lib/.build-id/f4/4e2565c6b3b70885cd1a30f677eee1718a6735
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.kde.kdialog.ProgressDialog.xml
/usr/share/doc/kdialog
/usr/share/doc/kdialog/README
/usr/share/licenses/kdialog
/usr/share/licenses/kdialog/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/kdialog/COPYING.DOC
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/ia/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/km/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/nds/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/ug/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/wa/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/metainfo/org.kde.kdialog.metainfo.xml
/usr/bin/kdialog
/usr/bin/kdialog_progress_helper
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/e9
/usr/lib/.build-id/e9/e77c9884626b425b33f2259aa10a8addba22b6
/usr/lib/.build-id/fe
/usr/lib/.build-id/fe/d913d7403b191bb3885a6a1a0b79958449228e
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.kde.kdialog.ProgressDialog.xml
/usr/share/doc/kdialog
/usr/share/doc/kdialog/README
/usr/share/licenses/kdialog
/usr/share/licenses/kdialog/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/kdialog/COPYING.DOC
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/ia/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/km/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/nds/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/se/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/sq/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/tg/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/ug/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/wa/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/kdialog.mo
/usr/share/metainfo/org.kde.kdialog.metainfo.xml

References

Summary

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