How To Install libdbusmenu on Fedora 34

libdbusmenu is Library for passing menus over DBus Library for passing menus over DBus

Introduction

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

What is libdbusmenu

This is a small library designed to make sharing and displaying of menu structures over DBus simple and easy to use. It works for both QT and GTK+ and makes building menus simple. libdbusmenu 16.04.0 17.fc34 x86_64 136 k libdbusmenu-16.04.0-17.fc34.src.rpm fedora Library for passing menus over DBus https LGPLv3 or LGPLv2 and GPLv3 This is a small library designed to make sharing and displaying of menu structures over DBus simple and easy to use. It works for both QT and GTK+ and makes building menus simple.

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

Install libdbusmenu 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 libdbusmenu using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libdbusmenu

Install libdbusmenu 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 libdbusmenu using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install libdbusmenu

How To Uninstall libdbusmenu on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove libdbusmenu

libdbusmenu Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ed
/usr/lib/.build-id/ed/90ae3d0fb8c84be47af78fd27833d71e7a560c
/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0/Dbusmenu-0.4.typelib
/usr/lib64/libdbusmenu-glib.so.4
/usr/lib64/libdbusmenu-glib.so.4.0.12
/usr/share/doc/libdbusmenu
/usr/share/doc/libdbusmenu/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libdbusmenu/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libdbusmenu/README
/usr/share/licenses/libdbusmenu
/usr/share/licenses/libdbusmenu/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/libdbusmenu/COPYING-GPL3
/usr/share/licenses/libdbusmenu/COPYING.2.1
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ff
/usr/lib/.build-id/ff/daf2abf6115b46f81c8404d126cd78da01d3d3
/usr/lib/girepository-1.0/Dbusmenu-0.4.typelib
/usr/lib/libdbusmenu-glib.so.4
/usr/lib/libdbusmenu-glib.so.4.0.12
/usr/share/doc/libdbusmenu
/usr/share/doc/libdbusmenu/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/libdbusmenu/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/libdbusmenu/README
/usr/share/licenses/libdbusmenu
/usr/share/licenses/libdbusmenu/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/libdbusmenu/COPYING-GPL3
/usr/share/licenses/libdbusmenu/COPYING.2.1

References

Summary

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