How To Install sakura on Fedora 34

sakura is Terminal emulator based on GTK and VTE

Introduction

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

What is sakura

Sakura is a terminal emulator based on GTK and VTE. It’s a terminal emulator with few dependencies, so you don’t need a full GNOME desktop installed to have a decent terminal emulator.

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

Install sakura 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 sakura using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install sakura

Install sakura 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 sakura using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install sakura

How To Uninstall sakura on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove sakura

sakura Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/sakura
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/92
/usr/lib/.build-id/92/69b76ede9d8cdc73c4acb153858ad88c884b1b
/usr/share/applications/sakura.desktop
/usr/share/doc/sakura
/usr/share/doc/sakura/AUTHORS
/usr/share/licenses/sakura
/usr/share/licenses/sakura/GPL
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/sakura.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/sakura.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/sakura.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/sakura.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/sakura.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/sakura.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/sakura.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/sakura.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/sakura.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/sakura.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/sakura.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/sakura.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/sakura.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/sakura.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/sakura.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/sakura.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/sakura.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/sakura.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/sakura.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/sakura.1.gz
/usr/share/pixmaps/terminal-tango.svg

References

Summary

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