How To Install passmenu on Fedora 34

passmenu is A dmenu based interface to pass.

Introduction

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

What is passmenu

A dmenu based interface to pass, the standard Unix password manager. This design allows you to quickly copy a password to the clipboard without having to open up a terminal window if you don’t already have one open. If --type is specified, the password is typed using xdotool instead of copied to the clipboard.

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

Install passmenu 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 passmenu using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install passmenu

Install passmenu 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 passmenu using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install passmenu

How To Uninstall passmenu on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove passmenu

passmenu Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/passmenu
/usr/share/doc/passmenu
/usr/share/doc/passmenu/README.md

References

Summary

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