How To Install roxterm on Fedora 34

roxterm is Terminal emulator

Introduction

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

What is roxterm

ROXTerm is a terminal emulator intended to provide similar features to gnome-terminal, based on the same VTE library. It is more configurable than gnome-terminal and aimed more at “power” users who make heavy use of terminals.

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

Install roxterm 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 roxterm using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install roxterm

Install roxterm 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 roxterm using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install roxterm

How To Uninstall roxterm on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove roxterm

roxterm Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/roxterm
/usr/bin/roxterm-config
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/7d
/usr/lib/.build-id/7d/05cfc150591003318b80dcdc6d91f438794f41
/usr/lib/.build-id/7f
/usr/lib/.build-id/7f/1a3bef65dfe4fd1b82186a71b2caeacc416105
/usr/share/applications/roxterm.desktop
/usr/share/doc/roxterm
/usr/share/doc/roxterm/en
/usr/share/doc/roxterm/en/guide.html
/usr/share/doc/roxterm/en/index.html
/usr/share/doc/roxterm/en/installation.html
/usr/share/doc/roxterm/en/news.html
/usr/share/doc/roxterm/index.html
/usr/share/doc/roxterm/index.php
/usr/share/doc/roxterm/lib
/usr/share/doc/roxterm/lib/favicon.ico
/usr/share/doc/roxterm/lib/header.png
/usr/share/doc/roxterm/lib/logo_text.png
/usr/share/doc/roxterm/lib/logo_text.xcf
/usr/share/doc/roxterm/lib/logo_text_only.png
/usr/share/doc/roxterm/lib/roxterm.css
/usr/share/doc/roxterm/lib/roxterm_ie.css
/usr/share/doc/roxterm/lib/roxterm_logo.png
/usr/share/doc/roxterm/lib/screenshot1.png
/usr/share/doc/roxterm/lib/screenshot2.png
/usr/share/doc/roxterm/lib/sprites.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/roxterm.svg
/usr/share/licenses/roxterm
/usr/share/licenses/roxterm/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/roxterm-config.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/roxterm.1.gz
/usr/share/metainfo/roxterm.metainfo.xml
/usr/share/roxterm
/usr/share/roxterm/Config
/usr/share/roxterm/Config/Colours
/usr/share/roxterm/Config/Colours/GTK
/usr/share/roxterm/Config/Colours/Nocturne
/usr/share/roxterm/Config/Colours/Tango
/usr/share/roxterm/Config/Shortcuts
/usr/share/roxterm/Config/Shortcuts/Default
/usr/share/roxterm/roxterm-config.ui

References

Summary

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