How To Install spacenavd on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install spacenavd on Fedora 34.
What is spacenavd
Spacenavd, is a free software replacement user-space driver (daemon), for 3Dconnexion’s space-something 6dof input devices. It’s compatible with the original 3dxsrv proprietary daemon provided by 3Dconnexion, and works perfectly with any program that was written for the 3Dconnexion driver.
We can use yum or dnf to install spacenavd on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install spacenavd.
Install spacenavd 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 spacenavd using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install spacenavd
Install spacenavd 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 spacenavd using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install spacenavd
How To Uninstall spacenavd on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the spacenavd package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove spacenavd
spacenavd Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/spacenavd
/usr/bin/spnavd_ctl
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/52
/usr/lib/.build-id/52/6d32372c7129aa375aeb24d548d22bb449b738
/usr/lib/systemd/system/spacenavd.service
/usr/share/doc/spacenavd
/usr/share/doc/spacenavd/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/spacenavd/README.md
/usr/share/doc/spacenavd/example-spnavrc
/usr/share/licenses/spacenavd
/usr/share/licenses/spacenavd/COPYING
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install spacenavd on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
