How To Install ratpoison on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ratpoison on Fedora 34.
What is ratpoison
Ratpoison is a simple window manager that relies solely on keyboard input as opposed to keyboard and mouse input.
We can use yum or dnf to install ratpoison on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ratpoison.
Install ratpoison 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 ratpoison using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ratpoison
Install ratpoison 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 ratpoison using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install ratpoison
How To Uninstall ratpoison on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the ratpoison package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ratpoison
ratpoison Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/ratpoison
/usr/bin/rpws
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/94
/usr/lib/.build-id/94/589ee5ce522631592c1bdd968973c0e3218a5c
/usr/share/doc/ratpoison
/usr/share/doc/ratpoison/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/ratpoison/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/ratpoison/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/ratpoison/README
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/ratpoison.el
/usr/share/info/ratpoison.info.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ratpoison.1.gz
/usr/share/ratpoison
/usr/share/ratpoison/allwindows.sh
/usr/share/ratpoison/clickframe.pl
/usr/share/ratpoison/genrpbindings
/usr/share/ratpoison/ratdate.sh
/usr/share/ratpoison/rpshowall.sh
/usr/share/ratpoison/rpws
/usr/share/ratpoison/sloppy.c
/usr/share/ratpoison/split.sh
/usr/share/ratpoison/unrat.c
/usr/share/xsessions/ratpoison.desktop
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ratpoison on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.