How To Install libappindicator on Fedora 34

libappindicator is Application indicators library Application indicators library

Introduction

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

What is libappindicator

A library to allow applications to export a menu into the Unity Menu bar. Based on KSNI it also works in KDE and will fallback to generic Systray support if none of those are available. libappindicator 12.10.0 30.fc34 x86_64 42 k libappindicator-12.10.0-30.fc34.src.rpm fedora Application indicators library https LGPLv2 and LGPLv3 A library to allow applications to export a menu into the Unity Menu bar. Based on KSNI it also works in KDE and will fallback to generic Systray support if none of those are available.

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

Install libappindicator 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 libappindicator using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libappindicator

Install libappindicator 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 libappindicator using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libappindicator

How To Uninstall libappindicator on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove libappindicator

libappindicator Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/10
/usr/lib/.build-id/10/c6958e42218f95193ad830afda88da90f65ec7
/usr/lib/girepository-1.0/AppIndicator-0.1.typelib
/usr/lib/libappindicator.so.1
/usr/lib/libappindicator.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libappindicator
/usr/share/doc/libappindicator/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libappindicator/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libappindicator/COPYING.LGPL.2.1
/usr/share/doc/libappindicator/README
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c7
/usr/lib/.build-id/c7/e2937252c511a7bab547b881bd75919ad65f6a
/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0/AppIndicator-0.1.typelib
/usr/lib64/libappindicator.so.1
/usr/lib64/libappindicator.so.1.0.0
/usr/share/doc/libappindicator
/usr/share/doc/libappindicator/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libappindicator/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/libappindicator/COPYING.LGPL.2.1
/usr/share/doc/libappindicator/README

References

Summary

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