How To Install spacefm on Fedora 34

spacefm is Multi-panel tabbed file and desktop manager

Introduction

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

What is spacefm

SpaceFM is a multi-panel tabbed file manager with built-in VFS, udev-based device manager, customizable menu system, and bash integration.

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

Install spacefm 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 spacefm using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install spacefm

Install spacefm 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 spacefm using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install spacefm

How To Uninstall spacefm on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove spacefm

spacefm Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/spacefm
/etc/spacefm/spacefm.conf
/usr/bin/spacefm
/usr/bin/spacefm-auth
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/82
/usr/lib/.build-id/82/f4fafd7870fcde0accfa3a9de711aa0314a68a
/usr/share/applications/spacefm-find.desktop
/usr/share/applications/spacefm-folder-handler.desktop
/usr/share/applications/spacefm.desktop
/usr/share/doc/spacefm
/usr/share/doc/spacefm/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/spacefm/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/spacefm/COPYING-LGPL
/usr/share/doc/spacefm/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/spacefm/README
/usr/share/doc/spacefm/spacefm-manual-en.html
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/spacefm-128-cube-blue.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/spacefm-128-cube-green.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/spacefm-128-cube-red.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/spacefm-128-pyramid-blue.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/spacefm-128-pyramid-green.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/spacefm-128-pyramid-red.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/spacefm-48-cube-blue.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/spacefm-48-cube-green.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/spacefm-48-cube-red.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/spacefm-48-folder-blue.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/spacefm-48-folder-red.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/spacefm-48-pyramid-blue.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/spacefm-48-pyramid-green.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/spacefm-48-pyramid-red.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/spacefm-find.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/spacefm-root.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/spacefm.png
/usr/share/locale/af/LC_MESSAGES/spacefm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/spacefm.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/spacefm.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_IN/LC_MESSAGES/spacefm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/spacefm.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/spacefm.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/spacefm.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/spacefm.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/spacefm.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/spacefm.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/spacefm.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/spacefm.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/spacefm.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/spacefm.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/spacefm.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/spacefm.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/spacefm.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/spacefm.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/spacefm.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/spacefm.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/spacefm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/spacefm.mo
/usr/share/locale/km/LC_MESSAGES/spacefm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/spacefm.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/spacefm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ltg/LC_MESSAGES/spacefm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/spacefm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/spacefm.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/spacefm.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/spacefm.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/spacefm.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/spacefm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ps/LC_MESSAGES/spacefm.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/spacefm.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/spacefm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/spacefm.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/spacefm.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/spacefm.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/spacefm.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/spacefm.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/spacefm.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/spacefm.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/spacefm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ur/LC_MESSAGES/spacefm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ur_PK/LC_MESSAGES/spacefm.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/spacefm.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/spacefm.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/spacefm.mo
/usr/share/mime/packages/spacefm-mime.xml
/usr/share/spacefm
/usr/share/spacefm/ui
/usr/share/spacefm/ui/about-dlg.ui
/usr/share/spacefm/ui/appchooserdlg.ui
/usr/share/spacefm/ui/file_properties.ui
/usr/share/spacefm/ui/find-files.ui
/usr/share/spacefm/ui/find-files2.ui
/usr/share/spacefm/ui/godlg.ui
/usr/share/spacefm/ui/prefdlg.ui
/usr/share/spacefm/ui/prefdlg2.ui

References

Summary

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