How To Install qcomicbook on Fedora 34

qcomicbook is A viewer for comic book archives

Introduction

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

What is qcomicbook

QComicBook is a viewer for PDF files and comic book archives containing jpeg/png/xpm/gif/bmp images, which aims at convenience and simplicity. Features include scrolling mode, double-pages viewing, manga mode, thumbnails view, page scaling, mouse or keyboard navigation etc. You will also need unzip, rar (or unrar), unace, p7zip and tar (with gzip and bzip2 support compiled in) somewhere in your PATH to handle archives. If one of these tools is missing you can still use QComicBook, but you won’t be able to open some archives. You may check status of supported archives via Help > System information menu option of QComicBook.

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

Install qcomicbook 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 qcomicbook using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install qcomicbook

Install qcomicbook 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 qcomicbook using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install qcomicbook

How To Uninstall qcomicbook on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove qcomicbook

qcomicbook Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/qcomicbook
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/10
/usr/lib/.build-id/10/9a28f102f2b608f8ad7d34eea451fd43dd3c92
/usr/share/appdata/qcomicbook.appdata.xml
/usr/share/applications/qcomicbook.desktop
/usr/share/doc/qcomicbook
/usr/share/doc/qcomicbook/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/qcomicbook/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/qcomicbook/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/qcomicbook/README
/usr/share/doc/qcomicbook/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/qcomicbook/TODO
/usr/share/man/man1/qcomicbook.1.gz
/usr/share/pixmaps/qcomicbook.png
/usr/share/qcomicbook
/usr/share/qcomicbook/i18n
/usr/share/qcomicbook/i18n/qcomicbook_cs_CZ.qm
/usr/share/qcomicbook/i18n/qcomicbook_de_DE.qm
/usr/share/qcomicbook/i18n/qcomicbook_en_EN.qm
/usr/share/qcomicbook/i18n/qcomicbook_es_ES.qm
/usr/share/qcomicbook/i18n/qcomicbook_fi_FI.qm
/usr/share/qcomicbook/i18n/qcomicbook_fr_CA.qm
/usr/share/qcomicbook/i18n/qcomicbook_fr_FR.qm
/usr/share/qcomicbook/i18n/qcomicbook_it_IT.qm
/usr/share/qcomicbook/i18n/qcomicbook_ko_KR.qm
/usr/share/qcomicbook/i18n/qcomicbook_nl_NL.qm
/usr/share/qcomicbook/i18n/qcomicbook_pl_PL.qm
/usr/share/qcomicbook/i18n/qcomicbook_pt_BR.qm
/usr/share/qcomicbook/i18n/qcomicbook_ru_RU.qm
/usr/share/qcomicbook/i18n/qcomicbook_uk_UA.qm
/usr/share/qcomicbook/i18n/qcomicbook_zh_CN.qm

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Summary

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