How To Install qconf on Fedora 34

qconf is Tool for generating configure script for qmake-based projects

Introduction

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

What is qconf

QConf allows you to have a nice configure script for your qmake-based project. It is intended for developers who don’t need (or want) to use the more complex GNU autotools. With qconf/qmake, it is easy to maintain a cross-platform project that uses a familiar configuration interface on unix.

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

Install qconf 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 qconf using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install qconf

Install qconf 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 qconf using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install qconf

How To Uninstall qconf on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove qconf

qconf Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/qconf-qt4
/usr/bin/qconf-qt5
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b8
/usr/lib/.build-id/b8/70682f36dae9942a4aad5cef72909be62b14ec
/usr/lib/.build-id/b8/70682f36dae9942a4aad5cef72909be62b14ec.1
/usr/share/doc/qconf
/usr/share/doc/qconf/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/qconf/README.md
/usr/share/doc/qconf/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/qconf
/usr/share/licenses/qconf/COPYING
/usr/share/qconf
/usr/share/qconf/conf
/usr/share/qconf/conf/conf.cpp
/usr/share/qconf/conf/conf.pro
/usr/share/qconf/conf/conf4.cpp
/usr/share/qconf/conf/conf4.h
/usr/share/qconf/conf/conf4.pro
/usr/share/qconf/modules
/usr/share/qconf/modules/qt41.qcm

References

Summary

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