How To Install qtel on Fedora 34

qtel is The Qt EchoLink Client

Introduction

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

What is qtel

This package contains Qtel, the Qt EchoLink client. It is an implementation of the EchoLink software in Qt. This is only an EchoLink client, that is it can not be connected to a transceiver to create a link. If it is a pure link node you want, install the svxlink-server package.

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

Install qtel 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 qtel using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install qtel

Install qtel 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 qtel using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install qtel

How To Uninstall qtel on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove qtel

qtel Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/qtel
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/55
/usr/lib/.build-id/55/b9466311a809f68d4fa0bec2bff25a0772d6e7
/usr/share/applications/qtel.desktop
/usr/share/doc/qtel
/usr/share/doc/qtel/COPYRIGHT
/usr/share/doc/qtel/ChangeLog
/usr/share/icons/link.xpm
/usr/share/man/man1/qtel.1.gz
/usr/share/qtel
/usr/share/qtel/sounds
/usr/share/qtel/sounds/connect.raw
/usr/share/qtel/translations
/usr/share/qtel/translations/qtel_de.qm
/usr/share/qtel/translations/qtel_es.qm
/usr/share/qtel/translations/qtel_fr.qm
/usr/share/qtel/translations/qtel_hu.qm
/usr/share/qtel/translations/qtel_it.qm
/usr/share/qtel/translations/qtel_ja.qm
/usr/share/qtel/translations/qtel_nl.qm
/usr/share/qtel/translations/qtel_ru.qm
/usr/share/qtel/translations/qtel_sv.qm
/usr/share/qtel/translations/qtel_tr.qm
/usr/share/qtel/translations/qtel_uk.qm

References

Summary

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