How To Install peek on Fedora 34

peek is Animated GIF screen recorder with an easy to use interface

Introduction

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

What is `peek`

Peek makes it easy to create short screencasts of a screen area. It was built for the specific use case of recording screen areas, e.g. for easily showing UI features of your own apps or for showing a bug in bug reports. With Peek, you simply place the Peek window over the area you want to record and press “Record”. Peek is optimized for generating animated GIFs, but you can also directly record to WebM or MP4 if you prefer. Peek is not a general purpose screencast app with extended features but rather focuses on the single task of creating small, silent screencasts of an area of the screen for creating GIF animations or silent WebM or MP4 videos. Peek runs on X11 or inside a GNOME Shell Wayland session using XWayland. Support for more Wayland desktops might be added in the future. Peek requires FFmpeg or running GNOME Shell session. FFmpeg avaliable in RPM Fusion repo. Enabling the RPM Fusion repositories * RPM Fusion - https - https

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

Install peek 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 peek using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install peek

Install peek 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 peek using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install peek

How To Uninstall peek on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove peek

peek Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/peek
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2c
/usr/lib/.build-id/2c/f27cae1ae974af30db432a6094bf2e23530334
/usr/share/applications/com.uploadedlobster.peek.desktop
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/com.uploadedlobster.peek.service
/usr/share/doc/peek
/usr/share/doc/peek/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/peek/README.md
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/com.uploadedlobster.peek.gschema.xml
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/com.uploadedlobster.peek.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/symbolic/apps/com.uploadedlobster.peek-symbolic.svg
/usr/share/licenses/peek
/usr/share/licenses/peek/LICENSE
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/peek.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/peek.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/peek.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/peek.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/peek.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/peek.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/peek.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/peek.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/peek.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/peek.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/peek.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/peek.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/peek.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/peek.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/peek.mo
/usr/share/locale/kn/LC_MESSAGES/peek.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/peek.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/peek.mo
/usr/share/locale/nap/LC_MESSAGES/peek.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/peek.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/peek.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/peek.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/peek.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_PT/LC_MESSAGES/peek.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/peek.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/peek.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/peek.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/peek.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk_UA/LC_MESSAGES/peek.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/peek.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/peek.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/peek.1.gz
/usr/share/metainfo/com.uploadedlobster.peek.appdata.xml

References

peek website

Summary

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