How To Install qdirstat on Fedora 34

qdirstat is Qt-based directory statistics

Introduction

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

What is qdirstat

QDirStat is a graphical application to show where your disk space has gone and to help you to clean it up. This is a Qt-only port of the old Qt3/KDE3-based KDirStat, now based on the latest Qt 5. It does not need any KDE libs or infrastructure. It runs on every X11-based desktop on Linux, BSD and other Unix-like systems.

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

Install qdirstat 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 qdirstat using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install qdirstat

Install qdirstat 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 qdirstat using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install qdirstat

How To Uninstall qdirstat on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove qdirstat

qdirstat Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/qdirstat
/usr/bin/qdirstat-cache-writer
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a2
/usr/lib/.build-id/a2/f2f7e412d888c3c9225a9313ce7fd864db1d45
/usr/share/applications/qdirstat.desktop
/usr/share/doc/qdirstat
/usr/share/doc/qdirstat/Btrfs-Free-Size.md
/usr/share/doc/qdirstat/Building.md
/usr/share/doc/qdirstat/Contributing.md
/usr/share/doc/qdirstat/Debugging-Tips.md
/usr/share/doc/qdirstat/DevHistory.md
/usr/share/doc/qdirstat/GitHub-Workflow.md
/usr/share/doc/qdirstat/Installing.md
/usr/share/doc/qdirstat/Pkg-View.md
/usr/share/doc/qdirstat/QDirStat-for-Servers.md
/usr/share/doc/qdirstat/README.md
/usr/share/doc/qdirstat/Troubleshooting.md
/usr/share/doc/qdirstat/Unpkg-View.md
/usr/share/doc/qdirstat/cache-file-format.txt
/usr/share/doc/qdirstat/stats
/usr/share/doc/qdirstat/stats/Buckets-Table.md
/usr/share/doc/qdirstat/stats/File-Size-Histogram.md
/usr/share/doc/qdirstat/stats/Histogram-Options.md
/usr/share/doc/qdirstat/stats/Histograms-in-General.md
/usr/share/doc/qdirstat/stats/Median-Percentiles.md
/usr/share/doc/qdirstat/stats/Overflow-Area.md
/usr/share/doc/qdirstat/stats/Percentiles-Table.md
/usr/share/doc/qdirstat/stats/README.md
/usr/share/doc/qdirstat/stats/Statistics.md
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/qdirstat.svg
/usr/share/licenses/qdirstat
/usr/share/licenses/qdirstat/LICENSE
/usr/share/metainfo/qdirstat.appdata.xml
/usr/bin/qdirstat
/usr/bin/qdirstat-cache-writer
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/bc
/usr/lib/.build-id/bc/abc6f109e33b34ce9203ce66babd5dd0b123e0
/usr/share/applications/qdirstat.desktop
/usr/share/doc/qdirstat
/usr/share/doc/qdirstat/Btrfs-Free-Size.md
/usr/share/doc/qdirstat/Building.md
/usr/share/doc/qdirstat/Contributing.md
/usr/share/doc/qdirstat/Debugging-Tips.md
/usr/share/doc/qdirstat/DevHistory.md
/usr/share/doc/qdirstat/GitHub-Workflow.md
/usr/share/doc/qdirstat/Installing.md
/usr/share/doc/qdirstat/Pkg-View.md
/usr/share/doc/qdirstat/QDirStat-for-Servers.md
/usr/share/doc/qdirstat/README.md
/usr/share/doc/qdirstat/Shadowed-by-Mount.md
/usr/share/doc/qdirstat/Troubleshooting.md
/usr/share/doc/qdirstat/Unpkg-View.md
/usr/share/doc/qdirstat/cache-file-format.txt
/usr/share/doc/qdirstat/stats
/usr/share/doc/qdirstat/stats/Buckets-Table.md
/usr/share/doc/qdirstat/stats/File-Size-Histogram.md
/usr/share/doc/qdirstat/stats/Histogram-Options.md
/usr/share/doc/qdirstat/stats/Histograms-in-General.md
/usr/share/doc/qdirstat/stats/Median-Percentiles.md
/usr/share/doc/qdirstat/stats/Overflow-Area.md
/usr/share/doc/qdirstat/stats/Percentiles-Table.md
/usr/share/doc/qdirstat/stats/README.md
/usr/share/doc/qdirstat/stats/Statistics.md
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/qdirstat.svg
/usr/share/licenses/qdirstat
/usr/share/licenses/qdirstat/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/qdirstat-cache-writer.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/qdirstat.1.gz
/usr/share/metainfo/qdirstat.appdata.xml

References

Summary

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