How To Install nitrogen on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nitrogen on Fedora 34.
What is nitrogen
A background browser and setter for X windows that can be used in two modes a recall mode to be used in start up scripts, uses the freedesktop.org standard for thumbnails, can set the GNOME background, command line set modes for use in scripts, inotify monitoring of browse directory, lazy loading of thumbnails to conserve memory and an ‘automatic’ set mode which determines the best mode to set an image based on its size.
We can use yum or dnf to install nitrogen on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install nitrogen.
Install nitrogen 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 nitrogen using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install nitrogen
Install nitrogen 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 nitrogen using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install nitrogen
How To Uninstall nitrogen on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the nitrogen package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove nitrogen
nitrogen Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/nitrogen
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a7
/usr/lib/.build-id/a7/a161ae708a9790c8967c2363a92314654a59b1
/usr/share/applications/nitrogen.desktop
/usr/share/doc/nitrogen
/usr/share/doc/nitrogen/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/nitrogen/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/nitrogen/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/nitrogen/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/nitrogen/README
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/nitrogen.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/actions/wallpaper-centered.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/actions/wallpaper-scaled.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/actions/wallpaper-tiled.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/actions/wallpaper-zoomed.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/nitrogen.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/devices/video-display.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/mimetypes/image-x-generic.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/nitrogen.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/nitrogen.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/nitrogen.png
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/nitrogen.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/nitrogen.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/nitrogen.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/nitrogen.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/nitrogen.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/nitrogen.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/nitrogen.1.gz
/usr/share/metainfo/nitrogen.appdata.xml
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nitrogen on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.