How To Install kvkbd on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install kvkbd on Fedora 34.
What is kvkbd
Kvkbd is a virtual keyboard for KDE, it contains many feature like system tray and dock support, autodetection and on the fly change of the keyboard layout, scripting with DBus, etc.
We can use yum or dnf to install kvkbd on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install kvkbd.
Install kvkbd 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 kvkbd using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install kvkbd
Install kvkbd 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 kvkbd using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install kvkbd
How To Uninstall kvkbd on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the kvkbd package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove kvkbd
kvkbd Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/kvkbd
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ed
/usr/lib/.build-id/ed/6057d81b25a3a7016f95bb72b5048766d5c43f
/usr/share/applications/kvkbd.desktop
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kvkbd
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kvkbd/common
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kvkbd/config-menu.png
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kvkbd/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kvkbd/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kvkbd/kvkbd.png
/usr/share/doc/kvkbd
/usr/share/doc/kvkbd/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/kvkbd/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/kvkbd/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/kvkbd/README
/usr/share/doc/kvkbd/TODO
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kvkbd
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kvkbd/pics
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kvkbd/pics/dock.png
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kvkbd/pics/tray.png
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install kvkbd on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.