How To Install vicious on Fedora 34
vicious is Modular widget library for awesome
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install vicious on Fedora 34.
What is vicious
Vicious widget types are a framework for creating your own awesome widgets. Vicious contains modules that gather data about your system, and a few helper functions that make it easier to register timers, suspend widgets and so on.
We can use yum or dnf to install vicious on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install vicious.
Install vicious 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 vicious using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install vicious
Install vicious 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 vicious using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install vicious
How To Uninstall vicious on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the vicious package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove vicious
vicious Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/share/doc/vicious
/usr/share/doc/vicious/Changes.md
/usr/share/doc/vicious/README-contrib.md
/usr/share/doc/vicious/README-templates.md
/usr/share/doc/vicious/README.md
/usr/share/doc/vicious/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/vicious
/usr/share/licenses/vicious/LICENSE
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/contrib
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/contrib/ac_linux.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/contrib/ati_linux.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/contrib/batpmu_linux.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/contrib/batproc_linux.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/contrib/btc_all.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/contrib/buildbot_all.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/contrib/cmus_all.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/contrib/countfiles_all.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/contrib/dio_linux.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/contrib/init.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/contrib/mpc_all.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/contrib/net_linux.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/contrib/netcfg.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/contrib/nvinf_all.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/contrib/nvsmi_all.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/contrib/openweather_all.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/contrib/ossvol_linux.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/contrib/pop_all.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/contrib/pulse_all.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/contrib/rss_all.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/contrib/sensors_linux.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/contrib/wpa_all.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/helpers.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/init.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/spawn.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/templates
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/templates/async.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/templates/sync.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/bat_freebsd.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/bat_linux.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/bat_openbsd.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/cmus_all.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/cpu_freebsd.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/cpu_linux.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/cpu_openbsd.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/cpufreq_freebsd.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/cpufreq_linux.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/cpuinf_linux.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/date_all.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/dio_linux.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/fanspeed_freebsd.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/fs_all.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/gmail_all.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/hddtemp_linux.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/hwmontemp_linux.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/init.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/mbox_all.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/mboxc_all.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/mdir_all.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/mem_freebsd.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/mem_linux.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/mpd_all.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/net_freebsd.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/net_linux.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/notmuch_all.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/org_all.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/os_bsd.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/os_linux.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/pkg_all.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/raid_linux.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/thermal_freebsd.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/thermal_linux.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/uptime_freebsd.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/uptime_linux.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/volume_freebsd.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/volume_linux.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/weather_all.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/wifi_linux.lua
/usr/share/lua/5.4/vicious/widgets/wifiiw_linux.lua
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install vicious on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.