How To Install tilda on Fedora 34

tilda is A Gtk based drop down terminal for Linux and Unix

Introduction

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

What is `tilda`

Tilda is a Linux terminal taking after the likeness of many classic terminals from first person shooter games, Quake, Doom and Half-Life (to name a few), where the terminal has no border and is hidden from the desktop until a key is pressed.

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

Install tilda 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 tilda using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install tilda

Install tilda 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 tilda using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install tilda

How To Uninstall tilda on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove tilda

tilda Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/tilda
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a8
/usr/lib/.build-id/a8/4043eebdb4f809bd099328aa9b1f409472cfcb
/usr/share/applications/tilda.desktop
/usr/share/doc/tilda
/usr/share/doc/tilda/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/tilda/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/tilda/README.md
/usr/share/doc/tilda/TODO.md
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/tilda.png
/usr/share/licenses/tilda
/usr/share/licenses/tilda/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/tilda.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/tilda.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/tilda.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/tilda.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/tilda.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/tilda.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/tilda.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/tilda.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/tilda.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/tilda.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/tilda.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/tilda.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/tilda.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/tilda.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/tilda.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/tilda.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/tilda.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/tilda.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/tilda.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/tilda.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/tilda.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/tilda.mo
/usr/share/metainfo/tilda.appdata.xml
/usr/share/pixmaps/tilda.png
/usr/share/tilda

References

tilda website

Summary

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