How To Install ksig on Fedora 34

ksig is A graphical application to manage multiple email signatures

Introduction

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

What is `ksig`

KSig is a graphical tool for keeping track of many different email signatures. The signatures themselves can be edited through KSig’s graphical user interface. A command-line interface is then available for generating random or daily signatures from a list. The command-line interface makes a suitable plugin for generating signatures in external mail clients such as KMail.

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

Install ksig 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 ksig using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ksig

Install ksig 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 ksig using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ksig

How To Uninstall ksig on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove ksig

ksig Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/ksig
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/18
/usr/lib/.build-id/18/caf026e5c9ac799904cf30fa53cc449c447b09
/usr/share/applications/kde4/ksig.desktop
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/ksig
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/ksig/common
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/ksig/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/ksig/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/ksig/screenshot.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/ksig.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/ksig.png
/usr/share/kde4/apps/ksig
/usr/share/kde4/apps/ksig/ksigui.rc
/usr/share/licenses/ksig
/usr/share/licenses/ksig/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/ksig/COPYING.DOC
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/ksig.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/ksig.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/ksig.mo
/usr/share/locale/br/LC_MESSAGES/ksig.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/ksig.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/ksig.mo
/usr/share/locale/cy/LC_MESSAGES/ksig.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/ksig.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/ksig.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/ksig.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/ksig.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/ksig.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/ksig.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/ksig.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/ksig.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/ksig.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/ksig.mo
/usr/share/locale/fy/LC_MESSAGES/ksig.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/ksig.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/ksig.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/ksig.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/ksig.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/ksig.mo
/usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/ksig.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/ksig.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/ksig.mo
/usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/ksig.mo
/usr/share/locale/km/LC_MESSAGES/ksig.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/ksig.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/ksig.mo
/usr/share/locale/mk/LC_MESSAGES/ksig.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/ksig.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/ksig.mo
/usr/share/locale/nds/LC_MESSAGES/ksig.mo
/usr/share/locale/ne/LC_MESSAGES/ksig.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/ksig.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/ksig.mo
/usr/share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/ksig.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/ksig.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/ksig.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/ksig.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/ksig.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/ksig.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/ksig.mo
/usr/share/locale/se/LC_MESSAGES/ksig.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/ksig.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/ksig.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/ksig.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/ksig.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/ksig.mo
/usr/share/locale/tg/LC_MESSAGES/ksig.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/ksig.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/ksig.mo
/usr/share/locale/uz/LC_MESSAGES/ksig.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/ksig.mo
/usr/share/locale/xh/LC_MESSAGES/ksig.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/ksig.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/ksig.mo

References

ksig website

Summary

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