How To Install plank on Fedora 34

plank is Stupidly simple Dock

Introduction

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

What is `plank`

Plank is meant to be the simplest dock on the planet. The goal is to provide just what a dock needs and absolutely nothing more. It is, however, a library which can be extended to create other dock programs with more advanced features. Thus, Plank is the underlying technology for Docky (starting in version 3.0.0) and aims to provide all the core features while Docky extends it to add fancier things like Docklets, painters, settings dialogs, etc.

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

Install plank 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 plank using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install plank

Install plank 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 plank using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install plank

How To Uninstall plank on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove plank

plank Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/xdg/autostart/plank.desktop
/usr/bin/plank
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/e1
/usr/lib/.build-id/e1/6acc9798ec2664c4bd3cc90513a749d6f68472
/usr/share/applications/plank.desktop
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/net.launchpad.plank.gschema.xml
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/plank.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/plank.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/plank.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/plank.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/plank.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/plank.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/plank.svg
/usr/share/locale/am/LC_MESSAGES/plank.mo
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/plank.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/plank.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/plank.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/plank.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/plank.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/plank.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/plank.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/plank.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_AU/LC_MESSAGES/plank.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_CA/LC_MESSAGES/plank.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/plank.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/plank.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/plank.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/plank.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/plank.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/plank.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/plank.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/plank.mo
/usr/share/locale/gd/LC_MESSAGES/plank.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/plank.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/plank.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/plank.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/plank.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/plank.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/plank.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/plank.mo
/usr/share/locale/ka/LC_MESSAGES/plank.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/plank.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/plank.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/plank.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/plank.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/plank.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/plank.mo
/usr/share/locale/ne/LC_MESSAGES/plank.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/plank.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/plank.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/plank.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/plank.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/plank.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/plank.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/plank.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/plank.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/plank.mo
/usr/share/locale/sma/LC_MESSAGES/plank.mo
/usr/share/locale/sq/LC_MESSAGES/plank.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/plank.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/plank.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/plank.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/plank.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/plank.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/plank.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/plank.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/plank.mo
/usr/share/locale/uz/LC_MESSAGES/plank.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/plank.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/plank.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/plank.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/plank.1.gz
/usr/share/metainfo/plank.appdata.xml
/usr/share/plank
/usr/share/plank/themes
/usr/share/plank/themes/Default
/usr/share/plank/themes/Default/dock.theme
/usr/share/plank/themes/Matte
/usr/share/plank/themes/Matte/dock.theme
/usr/share/plank/themes/Transparent
/usr/share/plank/themes/Transparent/dock.theme

References

plank website

Summary

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