How To Install quaternion on Fedora 34

quaternion is A Qt5-based IM client for Matrix

Introduction

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

What is quaternion

Quaternion is a cross-platform desktop IM client for the Matrix protocol.

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

Install quaternion 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 quaternion using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install quaternion

Install quaternion 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 quaternion using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install quaternion

How To Uninstall quaternion on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove quaternion

quaternion Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/quaternion
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6e
/usr/lib/.build-id/6e/ec0505989d40c47d436b68afcc804e6635c051
/usr/share/Quotient/quaternion/translations/quaternion_de.qm
/usr/share/Quotient/quaternion/translations/quaternion_en_GB.qm
/usr/share/Quotient/quaternion/translations/quaternion_es.qm
/usr/share/Quotient/quaternion/translations/quaternion_pl.qm
/usr/share/Quotient/quaternion/translations/quaternion_ru.qm
/usr/share/applications/com.github.quaternion.desktop
/usr/share/doc/quaternion
/usr/share/doc/quaternion/README.md
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/quaternion.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/quaternion.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/quaternion.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/quaternion.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/quaternion.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/quaternion.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/quaternion.svgz
/usr/share/licenses/quaternion
/usr/share/licenses/quaternion/COPYING
/usr/share/metainfo/com.github.quaternion.appdata.xml
/usr/bin/quaternion
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/d7
/usr/lib/.build-id/d7/1155a13e03f79b99d95ae752ffe6b77e729e8d
/usr/share/Quotient/quaternion/translations/quaternion_de.qm
/usr/share/Quotient/quaternion/translations/quaternion_en.qm
/usr/share/Quotient/quaternion/translations/quaternion_en_GB.qm
/usr/share/Quotient/quaternion/translations/quaternion_es.qm
/usr/share/Quotient/quaternion/translations/quaternion_pl.qm
/usr/share/Quotient/quaternion/translations/quaternion_ru.qm
/usr/share/applications/com.github.quaternion.desktop
/usr/share/doc/quaternion
/usr/share/doc/quaternion/README.md
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/quaternion.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/quaternion.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/quaternion.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/quaternion.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/quaternion.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/quaternion.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/quaternion.svgz
/usr/share/licenses/quaternion
/usr/share/licenses/quaternion/COPYING
/usr/share/metainfo/com.github.quaternion.appdata.xml

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Summary

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