How To Install squeekboard on Fedora 34

squeekboard is a Wayland virtual keyboard

Introduction

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

What is squeekboard

Squeekboard is a virtual keyboard supporting Wayland, built primarily for the Librem 5 phone. It squeaks because some Rust got inside.

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

Install squeekboard 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 squeekboard using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install squeekboard

Install squeekboard 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 squeekboard using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install squeekboard

How To Uninstall squeekboard on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove squeekboard

squeekboard Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/xdg/autostart/squeekboard.desktop
/usr/bin/squeekboard
/usr/bin/squeekboard-entry
/usr/bin/squeekboard-test-layout
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/11
/usr/lib/.build-id/11/c1460cd80349176c6f9c7f9dd33eaaed08bf5c
/usr/lib/.build-id/a1
/usr/lib/.build-id/a1/68356bd44fcaf87e2444bb1370ad1de27c6c0d
/usr/share/applications/sm.puri.Squeekboard.desktop
/usr/share/doc/squeekboard
/usr/share/doc/squeekboard/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/squeekboard
/usr/share/licenses/squeekboard/COPYING

References

Summary

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