How To Install sparkleshare on Fedora 34

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Introduction

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

What is sparkleshare

SparkleShare creates a special folder on your computer. You can add remotely hosted folders (or “projects”) to this folder. These projects will be automatically kept in sync with both the host and all of your peers when someone adds, removes or edits a file.

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

Install sparkleshare 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 sparkleshare using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install sparkleshare

Install sparkleshare 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 sparkleshare using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install sparkleshare

How To Uninstall sparkleshare on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove sparkleshare

sparkleshare Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/sparkleshare
/usr/share/applications/SparkleShare.Autostart.desktop
/usr/share/applications/org.sparkleshare.SparkleShare.Invites.desktop
/usr/share/applications/org.sparkleshare.SparkleShare.desktop
/usr/share/doc/sparkleshare
/usr/share/doc/sparkleshare/README.md
/usr/share/doc/sparkleshare/RELEASE_NOTES.txt
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/org.sparkleshare.SparkleShare.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/org.sparkleshare.SparkleShare-syncing-down.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/org.sparkleshare.SparkleShare-syncing-error.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/org.sparkleshare.SparkleShare-syncing-up.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/org.sparkleshare.SparkleShare-syncing.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/org.sparkleshare.SparkleShare.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/org.sparkleshare.SparkleShare.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/org.sparkleshare.SparkleShare-syncing-down.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/org.sparkleshare.SparkleShare-syncing-error.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/org.sparkleshare.SparkleShare-syncing-up.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/org.sparkleshare.SparkleShare-syncing.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/org.sparkleshare.SparkleShare.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/512x512/apps/org.sparkleshare.SparkleShare.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/symbolic/apps/org.sparkleshare.SparkleShare-symbolic.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/symbolic/apps/org.sparkleshare.SparkleShare-syncing-down-symbolic.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/symbolic/apps/org.sparkleshare.SparkleShare-syncing-error-symbolic.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/symbolic/apps/org.sparkleshare.SparkleShare-syncing-symbolic.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/symbolic/apps/org.sparkleshare.SparkleShare-syncing-up-symbolic.svg
/usr/share/licenses/sparkleshare
/usr/share/licenses/sparkleshare/LICENSE.md
/usr/share/licenses/sparkleshare/LICENSE_Sparkles.md
/usr/share/metainfo/org.sparkleshare.SparkleShare.appdata.xml
/usr/share/sparkleshare
/usr/share/sparkleshare/SparkleShare.exe
/usr/share/sparkleshare/Sparkles.Git.dll
/usr/share/sparkleshare/Sparkles.dll
/usr/share/sparkleshare/html
/usr/share/sparkleshare/html/day-entry.html
/usr/share/sparkleshare/html/event-entry.html
/usr/share/sparkleshare/html/event-log.html
/usr/share/sparkleshare/html/jquery.js
/usr/share/sparkleshare/icons
/usr/share/sparkleshare/icons/hicolor
/usr/share/sparkleshare/icons/hicolor/12x12
/usr/share/sparkleshare/icons/hicolor/12x12/status
/usr/share/sparkleshare/icons/hicolor/12x12/status/document-added.png
/usr/share/sparkleshare/icons/hicolor/12x12/status/document-deleted.png
/usr/share/sparkleshare/icons/hicolor/12x12/status/document-edited.png
/usr/share/sparkleshare/icons/hicolor/12x12/status/document-moved.png
/usr/share/sparkleshare/icons/hicolor/16x16
/usr/share/sparkleshare/icons/hicolor/16x16/status
/usr/share/sparkleshare/icons/hicolor/16x16/status/list-point.png
/usr/share/sparkleshare/icons/hicolor/22x22
/usr/share/sparkleshare/icons/hicolor/22x22/status
/usr/share/sparkleshare/icons/hicolor/22x22/status/process-working.png
/usr/share/sparkleshare/pixmaps
/usr/share/sparkleshare/pixmaps/about.png
/usr/share/sparkleshare/pixmaps/side-splash.png
/usr/share/sparkleshare/pixmaps/text-balloon.png
/usr/share/sparkleshare/pixmaps/tutorial-slide-1.png
/usr/share/sparkleshare/pixmaps/tutorial-slide-2.png
/usr/share/sparkleshare/pixmaps/tutorial-slide-3.png
/usr/share/sparkleshare/pixmaps/user-icon-default.png
/usr/share/sparkleshare/presets
/usr/share/sparkleshare/presets/bitbucket.png
/usr/share/sparkleshare/presets/bitbucket.xml
/usr/share/sparkleshare/presets/github.png
/usr/share/sparkleshare/presets/github.xml
/usr/share/sparkleshare/presets/gitlab.png
/usr/share/sparkleshare/presets/gitlab.xml
/usr/share/sparkleshare/presets/own-server.png
/usr/share/sparkleshare/presets/own-server.xml
/usr/share/sparkleshare/presets/planio.png
/usr/share/sparkleshare/presets/planio.xml

References

Summary

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