How To Install nall on Fedora 34

nall is A simple, non-intrusive, everything notifier in the system tray

Introduction

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

What is nall

Nall is a small gtk+ application that discretely fits into your freedesktop system tray (such as trayer). Its purpose is to spawn periodically every kind of script and display a one-line output in the tooltip window. The main usage of nall is monitoring or just notifying of almost everything (it just depends upon your imagination and ability to script).

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

Install nall 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 nall using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install nall

Install nall 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 nall using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install nall

How To Uninstall nall on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove nall

nall Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/nall
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ba
/usr/lib/.build-id/ba/43d0de26db0356e6782d7e22021d6609e0d619
/usr/share/applications/nall.desktop
/usr/share/doc/nall
/usr/share/doc/nall/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/nall/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/nall/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/nall/README
/usr/share/doc/nall/examples
/usr/share/doc/nall/examples/10ping
/usr/share/doc/nall/examples/20machines_health
/usr/share/doc/nall/examples/2wifi_link
/usr/share/doc/nall/examples/300battery
/usr/share/doc/nall/examples/30last.fm
/usr/share/doc/nall/examples/3600example.com_disk
/usr/share/doc/nall/examples/3600vsftp
/usr/share/doc/nall/examples/[email protected]
/usr/share/doc/nall/examples/600news
/usr/share/doc/nall/examples/60http
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/nall.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/nall.mo
/usr/share/nall
/usr/share/nall/nall-dialogs.ui
/usr/share/pixmaps/nall.png

References

Summary

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