How To Install ucviewer on Fedora 34

ucviewer is A tool for browsing Unicode tables

Introduction

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

What is `ucviewer`

Unicode Viewer is a tool for browsing Unicode tables to obtain detailed information about every glyph. It provides a GUI with multiple functions for navigating through the data and a Lua scripting interface to create new functions. It also displays each glyph’s DUCET-information and allows sorting according to an order specified in an allkeys.txt-File.

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

Install ucviewer 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 ucviewer using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ucviewer

Install ucviewer 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 ucviewer using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ucviewer

How To Uninstall ucviewer on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove ucviewer

ucviewer Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/UnicodeViewer
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/de
/usr/lib/.build-id/de/13126c963ad59f1b10610f328a0f1461201716
/usr/share/UnicodeViewer
/usr/share/UnicodeViewer/de_DE.lua
/usr/share/UnicodeViewer/en_EN.lua
/usr/share/UnicodeViewer/help
/usr/share/UnicodeViewer/help/de_DE
/usr/share/UnicodeViewer/help/de_DE/about.html
/usr/share/UnicodeViewer/help/de_DE/browsingUnicode.html
/usr/share/UnicodeViewer/help/de_DE/consoleReference.html
/usr/share/UnicodeViewer/help/de_DE/hotkeys.html
/usr/share/UnicodeViewer/help/de_DE/index.html
/usr/share/UnicodeViewer/help/de_DE/intro.html
/usr/share/UnicodeViewer/help/de_DE/modifyingTables.html
/usr/share/UnicodeViewer/help/de_DE/reference.html
/usr/share/UnicodeViewer/help/de_DE/regularExpressions.html
/usr/share/UnicodeViewer/help/de_DE/usingConsole.html
/usr/share/UnicodeViewer/help/de_DE/usingSearch.html
/usr/share/UnicodeViewer/help/en_EN
/usr/share/UnicodeViewer/help/en_EN/about.html
/usr/share/UnicodeViewer/help/en_EN/browsingUnicode.html
/usr/share/UnicodeViewer/help/en_EN/consoleReference.html
/usr/share/UnicodeViewer/help/en_EN/hotkeys.html
/usr/share/UnicodeViewer/help/en_EN/index.html
/usr/share/UnicodeViewer/help/en_EN/intro.html
/usr/share/UnicodeViewer/help/en_EN/modifyingTables.html
/usr/share/UnicodeViewer/help/en_EN/reference.html
/usr/share/UnicodeViewer/help/en_EN/regularExpressions.html
/usr/share/UnicodeViewer/help/en_EN/usingConsole.html
/usr/share/UnicodeViewer/help/en_EN/usingSearch.html
/usr/share/UnicodeViewer/help/images
/usr/share/UnicodeViewer/help/images/cellsizeTools.png
/usr/share/UnicodeViewer/help/images/document-open-b.png
/usr/share/UnicodeViewer/help/images/document-open-uc.png
/usr/share/UnicodeViewer/help/images/document-save.png
/usr/share/UnicodeViewer/help/images/edit-blocks.png
/usr/share/UnicodeViewer/help/images/edit-clear.png
/usr/share/UnicodeViewer/help/images/edit-crop.png
/usr/share/UnicodeViewer/help/images/edit-cut.png
/usr/share/UnicodeViewer/help/images/fontTools.png
/usr/share/UnicodeViewer/help/images/go-up.png
/usr/share/UnicodeViewer/help/images/help.png
/usr/share/UnicodeViewer/help/images/searchIcon.png
/usr/share/UnicodeViewer/help/images/sortTable-de.png
/usr/share/UnicodeViewer/help/images/sortTable-en.png
/usr/share/UnicodeViewer/help/images/sortTable.png
/usr/share/UnicodeViewer/icon
/usr/share/UnicodeViewer/icon/uc-book.ico
/usr/share/UnicodeViewer/icon/uc-book.png
/usr/share/UnicodeViewer/init.lua
/usr/share/UnicodeViewer/qt_de_DE.qm
/usr/share/UnicodeViewer/qt_de_DE.ts
/usr/share/UnicodeViewer/uc_de_DE.qm
/usr/share/UnicodeViewer/uc_de_DE.ts
/usr/share/UnicodeViewer/uc_en_EN.qm
/usr/share/UnicodeViewer/uc_en_EN.ts
/usr/share/applications/ucviewer.desktop
/usr/share/doc/ucviewer
/usr/share/doc/ucviewer/ReadMe.txt
/usr/share/licenses/ucviewer
/usr/share/licenses/ucviewer/License.txt
/usr/share/pixmaps/uc-book.png

References

ucviewer website

Summary

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