How To Install paperwork on Fedora 34

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Introduction

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

What is `paperwork`

Paperwork is a tool to make papers searchable. The basic idea behind Paperwork is “scan & forget” scan a new document and forget about it until the day you need it again. Let the machine do most of the work.

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

Install paperwork 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 paperwork using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install paperwork

Install paperwork 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 paperwork using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install paperwork

How To Uninstall paperwork on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove paperwork

paperwork Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/paperwork-gtk
/usr/share/applications/work.openpaper.Paperwork.desktop
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/work.openpaper.Paperwork.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/work.openpaper.Paperwork.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/192x192/apps/work.openpaper.Paperwork.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/work.openpaper.Paperwork.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/work.openpaper.Paperwork.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/work.openpaper.Paperwork.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/work.openpaper.Paperwork.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/36x36/apps/work.openpaper.Paperwork.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/42x42/apps/work.openpaper.Paperwork.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/work.openpaper.Paperwork.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/512x512/apps/work.openpaper.Paperwork.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/work.openpaper.Paperwork.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/72x72/apps/work.openpaper.Paperwork.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/96x96/apps/work.openpaper.Paperwork.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/paperwork_halo.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/work.openpaper.Paperwork.svg
/usr/share/metainfo/work.openpaper.Paperwork.appdata.xml

References

paperwork website

Summary

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