How To Install ricochet on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ricochet on Fedora 34.
What is ricochet
Ricochet is an experiment with a different kind of instant messaging that doesn’t trust anyone with your identity, your contact list, or your communications. * You can chat without exposing your identity (or IP address) to anyone * Nobody can discover who your contacts are or when you talk (meta-data-free!) * There are no servers to compromise or operators to intimidate for your information * It’s cross-platform and easy for non-technical users Warnings that application protocols and associated programs can be induced to reveal information about the initiator. Tor depends on Privoxy and similar protocol cleaners to solve this problem. The present network is very small – this further reduces the strength of the anonymity provided. Tor is not presently suitable for high-stakes anonymity.
We can use yum or dnf to install ricochet on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ricochet.
Install ricochet 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 ricochet using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ricochet
Install ricochet 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 ricochet using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install ricochet
How To Uninstall ricochet on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the ricochet package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ricochet
ricochet Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/ricochet
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/e8
/usr/lib/.build-id/e8/50b9c899d7e73508f573169c6d29487e514850
/usr/share/applications/ricochet.desktop
/usr/share/doc/ricochet
/usr/share/doc/ricochet/AUTHORS.md
/usr/share/doc/ricochet/README.md
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/ricochet.png
/usr/share/licenses/ricochet
/usr/share/licenses/ricochet/LICENSE
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ricochet on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.