How To Install kfloppy on Fedora 34

kfloppy is Floppy formatting tool

Introduction

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

What is kfloppy

KFloppy is a utility that provides a straightforward graphical means to format 3.5" and 5.25" floppy disks.

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

Install kfloppy 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 kfloppy using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install kfloppy

Install kfloppy 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 kfloppy using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install kfloppy

How To Uninstall kfloppy on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove kfloppy

kfloppy Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/kfloppy
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/7e
/usr/lib/.build-id/7e/ffbe2ee468b9e352a2f63df388d5f9cc132495
/usr/share/applications/org.kde.kfloppy.desktop
/usr/share/doc/HTML/de/kfloppy
/usr/share/doc/HTML/de/kfloppy/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/de/kfloppy/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kfloppy
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kfloppy/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kfloppy/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/es/kfloppy
/usr/share/doc/HTML/es/kfloppy/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/es/kfloppy/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/et/kfloppy
/usr/share/doc/HTML/et/kfloppy/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/et/kfloppy/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/fr/kfloppy
/usr/share/doc/HTML/fr/kfloppy/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/fr/kfloppy/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/gl/kfloppy
/usr/share/doc/HTML/gl/kfloppy/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/gl/kfloppy/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/it/kfloppy
/usr/share/doc/HTML/it/kfloppy/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/it/kfloppy/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/nl/kfloppy
/usr/share/doc/HTML/nl/kfloppy/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/nl/kfloppy/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt/kfloppy
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt/kfloppy/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt/kfloppy/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt_BR/kfloppy
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt_BR/kfloppy/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt_BR/kfloppy/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/ru/kfloppy
/usr/share/doc/HTML/ru/kfloppy/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/ru/kfloppy/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/sr/kfloppy
/usr/share/doc/HTML/sr/kfloppy/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/sr/kfloppy/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/sv/kfloppy
/usr/share/doc/HTML/sv/kfloppy/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/sv/kfloppy/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/kfloppy
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/kfloppy/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/kfloppy/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/kfloppy
/usr/share/doc/kfloppy/README
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/kfloppy.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/kfloppy.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/kfloppy.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/kfloppy.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/kfloppy.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/kfloppy.png
/usr/share/licenses/kfloppy
/usr/share/licenses/kfloppy/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/kfloppy.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/kfloppy.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/kfloppy.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/kfloppy.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/kfloppy.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/kfloppy.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/kfloppy.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/kfloppy.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/kfloppy.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/kfloppy.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/kfloppy.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/kfloppy.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/kfloppy.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/kfloppy.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/kfloppy.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/kfloppy.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/kfloppy.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/kfloppy.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/kfloppy.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/kfloppy.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/kfloppy.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/kfloppy.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/kfloppy.mo
/usr/share/locale/ia/LC_MESSAGES/kfloppy.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/kfloppy.mo
/usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/kfloppy.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/kfloppy.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/kfloppy.mo
/usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/kfloppy.mo
/usr/share/locale/km/LC_MESSAGES/kfloppy.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/kfloppy.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/kfloppy.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/kfloppy.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/kfloppy.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/kfloppy.mo
/usr/share/locale/nds/LC_MESSAGES/kfloppy.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/kfloppy.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/kfloppy.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/kfloppy.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/kfloppy.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/kfloppy.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/kfloppy.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/kfloppy.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/kfloppy.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/kfloppy.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/kfloppy.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/kfloppy.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/kfloppy.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/kfloppy.mo
/usr/share/locale/ug/LC_MESSAGES/kfloppy.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/kfloppy.mo
/usr/share/locale/wa/LC_MESSAGES/kfloppy.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/kfloppy.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/kfloppy.mo
/usr/share/metainfo/org.kde.kfloppy.appdata.xml
/usr/share/qlogging-categories5/kfloppy.categories

References

Summary

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