How To Install paper on Fedora 34

paper is Query paper size database and retrieve the preferred size

Introduction

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

What is paper

This package enables users to indicate their preferred paper size, provides the paper(1) utility to find the user’s preferred default paper size and give information about known sizes, and specifies system-wide and per-user paper size catalogs, which can be can also be used directly (see paperspecs(5)).

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

Install paper 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 paper using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install paper

Install paper 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 paper using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install paper

How To Uninstall paper on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove paper

paper Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/paperspecs
/usr/bin/paper
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5d
/usr/lib/.build-id/5d/36bc772f2bd7d9b0e86dfc9af6f74c0ecf85f3
/usr/libexec/localepaper
/usr/share/doc/paper
/usr/share/doc/paper/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/paper/README
/usr/share/licenses/paper
/usr/share/licenses/paper/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/paper.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/paperspecs.5.gz

References

Summary

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