How To Install qrencode on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install qrencode on Fedora 34.
What is qrencode
Qrencode is a utility software using libqrencode to encode string data in a QR Code and save as a PNG image.
We can use yum or dnf to install qrencode on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install qrencode.
Install qrencode 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 qrencode using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install qrencode
Install qrencode 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 qrencode using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install qrencode
How To Uninstall qrencode on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the qrencode package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove qrencode
qrencode Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/qrencode
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/14
/usr/lib/.build-id/14/5049bd4ebdfdf47dfffd2c44b7eafbf4375f3d
/usr/share/man/man1/qrencode.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install qrencode on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.