How To Install vdr on Fedora 34

vdr is Video Disk Recorder

Introduction

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

What is `vdr`

VDR implements a complete digital set-top-box and video recorder. It can work with signals received from satellites (DVB-S) as well as cable (DVB-C) and terrestrial (DVB-T) signals. At least one DVB card is required to run VDR.

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

Install vdr 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 vdr using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install vdr

Install vdr 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 vdr using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install vdr

How To Uninstall vdr on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove vdr

vdr Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/rwtab.d/vdr
/etc/sudoers.d/vdr
/etc/sysconfig/vdr
/etc/sysconfig/vdr-plugins.d
/etc/vdr
/etc/vdr/camresponses.conf
/etc/vdr/channels.conf
/etc/vdr/commands.conf
/etc/vdr/diseqc.conf
/etc/vdr/keymacros.conf
/etc/vdr/plugins
/etc/vdr/reccmds.conf
/etc/vdr/remote.conf
/etc/vdr/scr.conf
/etc/vdr/setup.conf
/etc/vdr/sources.conf
/etc/vdr/svdrphosts.conf
/etc/vdr/timercmds.conf
/etc/vdr/timers.conf
/run/vdr
/run/vdr/next-timer
/usr/bin/epg2html
/usr/bin/svdrpsend
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/87
/usr/lib/.build-id/87/75baf9a9463ce6e91ec8335f46ecd83d8c8820
/usr/lib/systemd/system/vdr.service
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/vdr.conf
/usr/lib64/vdr
/usr/lib64/vdr/bin
/usr/lib64/vdr/bin/vdr-check-setup
/usr/lib64/vdr/bin/vdr-moveto.sh
/usr/lib64/vdr/bin/vdr-set-wakeup
/usr/lib64/vdr/bin/vdr-shutdown.sh
/usr/sbin/runvdr
/usr/sbin/vdr
/usr/share/doc/vdr
/usr/share/doc/vdr/CHANGES.package.old
/usr/share/doc/vdr/CONTRIBUTORS
/usr/share/doc/vdr/HISTORY
/usr/share/doc/vdr/INSTALL
/usr/share/doc/vdr/MANUAL
/usr/share/doc/vdr/README
/usr/share/doc/vdr/README.i18n
/usr/share/doc/vdr/README.package
/usr/share/doc/vdr/UPDATE-1.2.0
/usr/share/doc/vdr/UPDATE-1.4.0
/usr/share/doc/vdr/UPDATE-1.6.0
/usr/share/doc/vdr/UPDATE-2.0.0
/usr/share/doc/vdr/UPDATE-2.2.0
/usr/share/doc/vdr/UPDATE-2.4.0
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/vdr.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca_ES/LC_MESSAGES/vdr.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs_CZ/LC_MESSAGES/vdr.mo
/usr/share/locale/da_DK/LC_MESSAGES/vdr.mo
/usr/share/locale/de_DE/LC_MESSAGES/vdr.mo
/usr/share/locale/el_GR/LC_MESSAGES/vdr.mo
/usr/share/locale/es_ES/LC_MESSAGES/vdr.mo
/usr/share/locale/et_EE/LC_MESSAGES/vdr.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi_FI/LC_MESSAGES/vdr.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr_FR/LC_MESSAGES/vdr.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr_HR/LC_MESSAGES/vdr.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu_HU/LC_MESSAGES/vdr.mo
/usr/share/locale/it_IT/LC_MESSAGES/vdr.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt_LT/LC_MESSAGES/vdr.mo
/usr/share/locale/mk_MK/LC_MESSAGES/vdr.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl_NL/LC_MESSAGES/vdr.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn_NO/LC_MESSAGES/vdr.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl_PL/LC_MESSAGES/vdr.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_PT/LC_MESSAGES/vdr.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro_RO/LC_MESSAGES/vdr.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru_RU/LC_MESSAGES/vdr.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk_SK/LC_MESSAGES/vdr.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl_SI/LC_MESSAGES/vdr.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr_RS/LC_MESSAGES/vdr.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv_SE/LC_MESSAGES/vdr.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr_TR/LC_MESSAGES/vdr.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk_UA/LC_MESSAGES/vdr.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/vdr.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/svdrpsend.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/vdr.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/vdr.5.gz
/usr/share/vdr
/usr/share/vdr/logos
/usr/share/vdr/plugins
/var/cache/vdr
/var/cache/vdr/epg.data
/var/lib/vdr
/var/lib/vdr/data
/var/lib/vdr/data/themes
/var/lib/vdr/data/themes/classic-default.theme
/var/lib/vdr/data/themes/sttng-default.theme
/var/lib/vdr/video
/var/lib/vdr/video/.update

References

vdr website

Summary

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