How To Install toxcore on Fedora 34

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Introduction

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

What is `toxcore`

Tox is a peer to peer (serverless) instant messenger aimed at making security and privacy easy to obtain for regular users. It uses NaCl for its encryption and authentication. toxcore 0.2.12 3.fc34 x86_64 309 k toxcore-0.2.12-3.fc34.src.rpm fedora Peer to peer instant messenger https GPLv3+ and BSD and ISC Tox is a peer to peer (serverless) instant messenger aimed at making security and privacy easy to obtain for regular users. It uses NaCl for its encryption and authentication.

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

Install toxcore 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 toxcore using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install toxcore

Install toxcore 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 toxcore using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install toxcore

How To Uninstall toxcore on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove toxcore

toxcore Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/DHT_bootstrap
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/16
/usr/lib/.build-id/16/52dcea7c1bd1cb243b81da2a353b34f92a381d
/usr/lib/.build-id/53
/usr/lib/.build-id/53/003f58f4a6763bb7f1f509470000f08fac5d8e
/usr/lib/.build-id/66
/usr/lib/.build-id/66/cf0390d923890006a42db9b20e664f67b4367e
/usr/lib64/libmisc_tools.so
/usr/lib64/libtoxcore.so.2
/usr/lib64/libtoxcore.so.2.12.0
/usr/share/doc/toxcore
/usr/share/doc/toxcore/CHANGELOG.md
/usr/share/doc/toxcore/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/toxcore
/usr/share/licenses/toxcore/LICENSE
/usr/bin/DHT_bootstrap
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2b
/usr/lib/.build-id/2b/c5a330d1af95fac719ccbe517da07ed3176b0e
/usr/lib/.build-id/2e
/usr/lib/.build-id/2e/f0c1aacedb256eb53f0ff5bf81f1c3e82fa6cb
/usr/lib/.build-id/fe
/usr/lib/.build-id/fe/fac8245e44535045e4a03d5131d466fabf2db9
/usr/lib/libmisc_tools.so
/usr/lib/libtoxcore.so.2
/usr/lib/libtoxcore.so.2.12.0
/usr/share/doc/toxcore
/usr/share/doc/toxcore/CHANGELOG.md
/usr/share/doc/toxcore/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/toxcore
/usr/share/licenses/toxcore/LICENSE

References

[toxcore website](https://github.com/TokTok/c-toxcore https://github.com/TokTok/c-toxcore)

Summary

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