How To Install kontact on Fedora 34

kontact is Personal Information Manager

Introduction

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

What is kontact

Kontact is the integrated solution to your personal information management (PIM) needs. It combines well-known KDE applications like KMail, KOrganizer and KAddressBook into a single interface to provide easy access to mail, scheduling, address book and other PIM functionality.

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

Install kontact 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 kontact using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install kontact

Install kontact 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 kontact using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install kontact

How To Uninstall kontact on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove kontact

kontact Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/kontact
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/36
/usr/lib/.build-id/36/6c66395b8aadc2fc35fee250c097c430a859f1
/usr/share/applications/org.kde.kontact.desktop
/usr/share/config.kcfg/kontact.kcfg
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.kde.kontact.service
/usr/share/doc/HTML/ca/kontact
/usr/share/doc/HTML/ca/kontact/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/ca/kontact/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/de/kontact
/usr/share/doc/HTML/de/kontact/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/de/kontact/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kontact
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kontact/calendar-sidebar-icon.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kontact/configuration-main.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kontact/configuration-starting-component.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kontact/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kontact/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kontact/kaddressbook-sidebar-icon.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kontact/main-view.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kontact/menu-bar-kmail.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kontact/menu-bar-korganizer.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kontact/menu-bar-summary.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kontact/navigator-bar-kontact.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kontact/new-menu.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kontact/settings-menu-kmail.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kontact/side-pane.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kontact/summary-selection.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kontact/summary-view-calendar.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kontact/summary-view-mail.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kontact/summary-view-notes.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kontact/summary-view-repositioning.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kontact/summary-view-special-dates.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kontact/summary-view-todos.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kontact/summary-view.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kontact/todo-list-sidebar-icon.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/es/kontact
/usr/share/doc/HTML/es/kontact/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/es/kontact/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/it/kontact
/usr/share/doc/HTML/it/kontact/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/it/kontact/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/nl/kontact
/usr/share/doc/HTML/nl/kontact/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/nl/kontact/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt/kontact
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt/kontact/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt/kontact/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt_BR/kontact
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt_BR/kontact/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt_BR/kontact/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/sv/kontact
/usr/share/doc/HTML/sv/kontact/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/sv/kontact/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/kontact
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/kontact/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/kontact/index.docbook
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/kontact.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/kontact.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/kontact.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/kontact.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/kontact.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/kontact.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/kontact.svg
/usr/share/kconf_update/kontact-15.08-kickoff.sh
/usr/share/kconf_update/kontact.upd
/usr/share/kservices5/kontactconfig.desktop
/usr/share/licenses/kontact
/usr/share/licenses/kontact/GFDL-1.2-or-later.txt
/usr/share/licenses/kontact/GPL-2.0-or-later.txt
/usr/share/licenses/kontact/Qt-Commercial-exception-1.0.txt
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/kontact.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/kontact.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/kontact.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/kontact.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/kontact.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/kontact.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/kontact.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/kontact.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/kontact.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/kontact.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/kontact.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/kontact.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/kontact.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/kontact.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/kontact.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/kontact.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/kontact.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/kontact.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/kontact.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/kontact.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/kontact.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/kontact.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/kontact.mo
/usr/share/locale/ia/LC_MESSAGES/kontact.mo
/usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/kontact.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/kontact.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/kontact.mo
/usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/kontact.mo
/usr/share/locale/km/LC_MESSAGES/kontact.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/kontact.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/kontact.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/kontact.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/kontact.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/kontact.mo
/usr/share/locale/nds/LC_MESSAGES/kontact.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/kontact.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/kontact.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/kontact.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/kontact.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/kontact.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/kontact.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/kontact.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/kontact.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/kontact.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/kontact.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/kontact.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/kontact.mo
/usr/share/locale/ug/LC_MESSAGES/kontact.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/kontact.mo
/usr/share/locale/wa/LC_MESSAGES/kontact.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/kontact.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/kontact.mo
/usr/share/messageviewer/about/default/introduction_kontact.html
/usr/share/messageviewer/about/default/loading_kontact.html
/usr/share/metainfo/org.kde.kontact.appdata.xml
/usr/share/qlogging-categories5/kontact.categories
/usr/share/qlogging-categories5/kontact.renamecategories

References

Summary

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