How To Install marble on Fedora 34

marble is Virtual globe and world atlas

Introduction

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

What is marble

Marble is a Virtual Globe and World Atlas that you can use to learn more about Earth roads. A mouse click on a place label will provide the respective Wikipedia article. Of course it’s also possible to measure distances between locations or watch the current cloud cover. Marble offers different thematic maps style topographic map, a satellite view, street map, earth at night and temperature and precipitation maps. All maps include a custom map key, so it can also be used as an educational tool for use in class-rooms. For educational purposes you can also change date and time and watch how the starry sky and the twilight zone on the map change. In opposite to other virtual globes Marble also features multiple projections

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

Install marble 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 marble using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install marble

Install marble 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 marble using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install marble

How To Uninstall marble on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove marble

marble Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/marble
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b9
/usr/lib/.build-id/b9/c3e26bc660bf220399a9bc65245af6d2ea2917
/usr/share/applications/marble_geo.desktop
/usr/share/applications/marble_geojson.desktop
/usr/share/applications/marble_gpx.desktop
/usr/share/applications/marble_kml.desktop
/usr/share/applications/marble_kmz.desktop
/usr/share/applications/marble_shp.desktop
/usr/share/applications/marble_worldwind.desktop
/usr/share/applications/org.kde.marble.desktop
/usr/share/config.kcfg/marble.kcfg
/usr/share/knsrcfiles/marble.knsrc
/usr/share/kservices5/marble_thumbnail_geojson.desktop
/usr/share/kservices5/marble_thumbnail_gpx.desktop
/usr/share/kservices5/marble_thumbnail_kml.desktop
/usr/share/kservices5/marble_thumbnail_kmz.desktop
/usr/share/kservices5/marble_thumbnail_osm.desktop
/usr/share/kservices5/marble_thumbnail_shp.desktop
/usr/share/kservices5/plasma-applet-org.kde.plasma.worldclock.desktop
/usr/share/kservices5/plasma-runner-marble.desktop
/usr/share/kservices5/plasma-wallpaper-org.kde.plasma.worldmap.desktop
/usr/share/kxmlgui5/marble
/usr/share/kxmlgui5/marble/marble_part.rc
/usr/share/kxmlgui5/marble/marbleui.rc
/usr/share/metainfo/org.kde.marble.appdata.xml
/usr/share/metainfo/org.kde.plasma.worldclock.appdata.xml
/usr/share/metainfo/org.kde.plasma.worldmap.appdata.xml
/usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.worldclock
/usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.worldclock/contents
/usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.worldclock/contents/config
/usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.worldclock/contents/config/config.qml
/usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.worldclock/contents/config/main.xml
/usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.worldclock/contents/ui
/usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.worldclock/contents/ui/configMapDisplay.qml
/usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.worldclock/contents/ui/configTimeZones.qml
/usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.worldclock/contents/ui/main.qml
/usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.worldclock/metadata.desktop
/usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.worldclock/metadata.json
/usr/share/plasma/wallpapers/org.kde.plasma.worldmap
/usr/share/plasma/wallpapers/org.kde.plasma.worldmap/contents
/usr/share/plasma/wallpapers/org.kde.plasma.worldmap/contents/config
/usr/share/plasma/wallpapers/org.kde.plasma.worldmap/contents/config/main.xml
/usr/share/plasma/wallpapers/org.kde.plasma.worldmap/contents/ui
/usr/share/plasma/wallpapers/org.kde.plasma.worldmap/contents/ui/config.qml
/usr/share/plasma/wallpapers/org.kde.plasma.worldmap/contents/ui/main.qml
/usr/share/plasma/wallpapers/org.kde.plasma.worldmap/metadata.desktop
/usr/share/plasma/wallpapers/org.kde.plasma.worldmap/metadata.json

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Summary

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