How To Install synergy on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install synergy on Fedora 34.
What is synergy
Synergy lets you easily share your mouse and keyboard between multiple computers, where each computer has its own display. No special hardware is required, all you need is a local area network. Synergy is supported on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Redirecting the mouse and keyboard is as simple as moving the mouse off the edge of your screen.
We can use yum or dnf to install synergy on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install synergy.
Install synergy 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 synergy using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install synergy
Install synergy 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 synergy using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install synergy
How To Uninstall synergy on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the synergy package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove synergy
synergy Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/synergy
/usr/bin/synergyc
/usr/bin/synergys
/usr/bin/syntool
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/00
/usr/lib/.build-id/00/cc27741dbe30e2fc65cf1b32b2e9ae4f4195a3
/usr/lib/.build-id/13
/usr/lib/.build-id/13/db2facd22a512928c102b10a82b145afc4f96c
/usr/lib/.build-id/6b
/usr/lib/.build-id/6b/4481f3925043fbe4ecb404d9789cb9832eaef5
/usr/lib/.build-id/9f
/usr/lib/.build-id/9f/24766661675bc2d1715635f898159cd39a776b
/usr/share/applications/synergy.desktop
/usr/share/doc/synergy
/usr/share/doc/synergy/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/synergy/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/synergy/README.md
/usr/share/doc/synergy/Readme.txt
/usr/share/doc/synergy/synergy.conf.example
/usr/share/doc/synergy/synergy.conf.example-advanced
/usr/share/doc/synergy/synergy.conf.example-basic
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/synergy.svg
/usr/share/man/man8/synergyc.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/synergys.8.gz
/usr/share/metainfo/synergy.appdata.xml
/usr/bin/synergy
/usr/bin/synergyc
/usr/bin/synergys
/usr/bin/syntool
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/14
/usr/lib/.build-id/14/b8bc4eca04a6d4e144e597365849c1b52e0590
/usr/lib/.build-id/26
/usr/lib/.build-id/26/770b5c2a21714c2f9d4915be596106f4c3b176
/usr/lib/.build-id/30
/usr/lib/.build-id/30/8b836c5e11ef2b977b59ad6329156f82b5a9e7
/usr/lib/.build-id/57
/usr/lib/.build-id/57/1b5644ba80b3e91dae405d3fdcdf396b16ebe5
/usr/share/applications/synergy.desktop
/usr/share/doc/synergy
/usr/share/doc/synergy/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/synergy/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/synergy/README.md
/usr/share/doc/synergy/Readme.txt
/usr/share/doc/synergy/synergy.conf.example
/usr/share/doc/synergy/synergy.conf.example-advanced
/usr/share/doc/synergy/synergy.conf.example-basic
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/synergy.svg
/usr/share/man/man8/synergyc.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/synergys.8.gz
/usr/share/metainfo/synergy.appdata.xml
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install synergy on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.