How To Install synergy on Fedora 34

synergy is Share mouse and keyboard between multiple computers over the network

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.