How To Install kremotecontrol on Fedora 34
kremotecontrol is KDE frontend for your remote controls
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install kremotecontrol on Fedora 34.
What is kremotecontrol
KRemoteControl (formerly known as KDELirc) is a KDE frontend for your remote controls. It allows to configure actions for button presses on remotes. All types of remotes supported by the Solid module in the KDE platform are also supported by KRemoteControl (e.g. with the Linux Infrared Remote Control system (LIRC) as backend).
We can use yum or dnf to install kremotecontrol on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install kremotecontrol.
Install kremotecontrol 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 kremotecontrol using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install kremotecontrol
Install kremotecontrol 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 kremotecontrol using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install kremotecontrol
How To Uninstall kremotecontrol on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the kremotecontrol package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove kremotecontrol
kremotecontrol Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/krcdnotifieritem
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/70
/usr/lib/.build-id/70/f826a1901f7bf0b0c7fa05e813914846beafb1
/usr/lib/.build-id/98
/usr/lib/.build-id/98/6f6de8f3d177efd8bd46dd2a26201563bdc30b
/usr/lib/.build-id/ad
/usr/lib/.build-id/ad/6da5fe88727a575c00ae9d2847628a458c637f
/usr/lib/.build-id/f1
/usr/lib/.build-id/f1/abfae4c8b3ee7c3db8ffd98db48e14d1748e65
/usr/lib/.build-id/fd
/usr/lib/.build-id/fd/b9b508060766403c7d4e92253a4a0c90c0b6e1
/usr/lib64/kde4/kcm_remotecontrol.so
/usr/lib64/kde4/kded_kremotecontroldaemon.so
/usr/lib64/kde4/kremotecontrol_lirc.so
/usr/lib64/kde4/plasma_engine_kremoteconrol.so
/usr/share/applications/kde4/krcdnotifieritem.desktop
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kcontrol
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kcontrol/kremotecontrol
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kcontrol/kremotecontrol/AddAction.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kcontrol/kremotecontrol/AddActionOptions.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kcontrol/kremotecontrol/AddDBusAction.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kcontrol/kremotecontrol/AddMode.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kcontrol/kremotecontrol/AddProfileAction.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kcontrol/kremotecontrol/AutoPopulate.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kcontrol/kremotecontrol/EditMasterMode.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kcontrol/kremotecontrol/common
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kcontrol/kremotecontrol/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kcontrol/kremotecontrol/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kcontrol/kremotecontrol/irkick.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kcontrol/kremotecontrol/irkickoff.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kcontrol/kremotecontrol/kcmremotecontrol.png
/usr/share/doc/kremotecontrol
/usr/share/doc/kremotecontrol/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/kremotecontrol/README
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/devices/infrared-remote.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/devices/infrared-remote.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/actions/krcd_flash.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/actions/krcd_off.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/krcd.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/devices/infrared-remote.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/devices/infrared-remote.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/42x42/devices/infrared-remote.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/devices/infrared-remote.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/devices/infrared-remote.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/8x8/devices/infrared-remote.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/actions/krcd_flash.svgz
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/actions/krcd_off.svgz
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/krcd.svgz
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/devices/infrared-remote.svgz
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kremotecontrol
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kremotecontrol/profiles
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kremotecontrol/profiles/amarok.profile.xml
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kremotecontrol/profiles/dragonplayer.profile.xml
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kremotecontrol/profiles/klauncher.profile.xml
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kremotecontrol/profiles/kmix.profile.xml
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kremotecontrol/profiles/konqueror.profile.xml
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kremotecontrol/profiles/kscd.profile.xml
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kremotecontrol/profiles/okular.profile.xml
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kremotecontrol/profiles/powermanagement.profile.xml
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kremotecontrol/profiles/profile.xsd
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kremotecontrol/profiles/tomahawk.profile.xml
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kremotecontrol/profiles/vlc.profile.xml
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kremotecontrol/profiles/vlc2.profile.xml
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kremotecontroldaemon
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kremotecontroldaemon/kremotecontroldaemon.notifyrc
/usr/share/kde4/services/kcm_remotecontrol.desktop
/usr/share/kde4/services/kded/kremotecontroldaemon.desktop
/usr/share/kde4/services/kremotecontrolbackends
/usr/share/kde4/services/kremotecontrolbackends/kremotecontrol_lirc.desktop
/usr/share/kde4/services/plasma-engine-kremotecontrol.desktop
/usr/share/kde4/servicetypes/kremotecontrolmanager.desktop
/usr/share/licenses/kremotecontrol
/usr/share/licenses/kremotecontrol/COPYING
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install kremotecontrol on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
