How To Install remoot on Fedora 34

remoot is Pseudo-universal remote control wrapper

Introduction

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

What is `remoot`

ReMoot is a remote control that supports many popular multimedia applications running on GNU/Linux. It wraps around these apps and provides a unified and easy-to-use interface which can be accessed in many different ways. You can use the remote control from the command-line, with desktop icons or panel buttons, over the web with “rewwwoot” or by mapping your multimedia keyboard to it so that you can control all supported applications with the same keys.

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

Install remoot 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 remoot using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install remoot

Install remoot 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 remoot using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install remoot

How To Uninstall remoot on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove remoot

remoot Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/daemoot
/usr/bin/remoot
/usr/bin/remoot-remote
/usr/share/doc/remoot
/usr/share/doc/remoot/README

References

remoot website

Summary

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