How To Install sirikali on Fedora 34

sirikali is GUI front end to encfs,cryfs,gocryptfs and securefs

Introduction

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

What is sirikali

SiriKali is a Qt/C++ GUI front end to encfs,cryfs,gocryptfs and securefs.

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

Install sirikali 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 sirikali using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install sirikali

Install sirikali 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 sirikali using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install sirikali

How To Uninstall sirikali on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove sirikali

sirikali Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/sirikali
/usr/bin/sirikali.pkexec
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/14
/usr/lib/.build-id/14/8b22afa9b915b594cad6444a3b2c2504b8d043
/usr/lib/.build-id/ad
/usr/lib/.build-id/ad/b89f3438de79d94feac05ac9cd712ac7c1b4e2
/usr/share/applications/io.github.mhogomchungu.sirikali.desktop
/usr/share/doc/sirikali
/usr/share/doc/sirikali/ABOUT ME
/usr/share/doc/sirikali/README.md
/usr/share/doc/sirikali/changelog
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/sirikali.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/sirikali.png
/usr/share/icons/sirikali.png
/usr/share/licenses/sirikali
/usr/share/licenses/sirikali/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/sirikali/COPYRIGHT
/usr/share/licenses/sirikali/GPLv2
/usr/share/licenses/sirikali/GPLv3
/usr/share/licenses/sirikali/LICENSE-NetworkAccessManager
/usr/share/licenses/sirikali/LICENSE-tasks
/usr/share/licenses/sirikali/LICENSE.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/sirikali.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/sirikali.pkexec.1.gz
/usr/share/metainfo/sirikali.appdata.xml
/usr/share/pixmaps/sirikali.png
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.sirikali.pkexec.policy
/usr/share/sirikali
/usr/share/sirikali/translations
/usr/share/sirikali/translations/en_US.qm
/usr/share/sirikali/translations/fr_FR.qm
/usr/share/sirikali/translations/ru_RU.qm
/usr/bin/sirikali
/usr/bin/sirikali.pkexec
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a5
/usr/lib/.build-id/a5/2e44961f3f04dc0993e57f00537fd8e2004ad3
/usr/lib/.build-id/f9
/usr/lib/.build-id/f9/521aba48ef3bc1a59f69e70cbdb78745d1500b
/usr/share/applications/io.github.mhogomchungu.sirikali.desktop
/usr/share/doc/sirikali
/usr/share/doc/sirikali/ABOUT ME
/usr/share/doc/sirikali/README.md
/usr/share/doc/sirikali/changelog
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/sirikali.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/sirikali.png
/usr/share/icons/sirikali.png
/usr/share/licenses/sirikali
/usr/share/licenses/sirikali/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/sirikali/COPYRIGHT
/usr/share/licenses/sirikali/GPLv2
/usr/share/licenses/sirikali/GPLv3
/usr/share/licenses/sirikali/LICENSE-NetworkAccessManager
/usr/share/licenses/sirikali/LICENSE-tasks
/usr/share/licenses/sirikali/LICENSE.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/sirikali.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/sirikali.pkexec.1.gz
/usr/share/metainfo/sirikali.appdata.xml
/usr/share/pixmaps/sirikali.png
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.sirikali.pkexec.policy
/usr/share/sirikali
/usr/share/sirikali/translations
/usr/share/sirikali/translations/en_US.qm
/usr/share/sirikali/translations/fr_FR.qm
/usr/share/sirikali/translations/ru_RU.qm

References

Summary

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