How To Install viking on Fedora 34
viking is GPS data editor and analyzer
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install viking on Fedora 34.
What is viking
Viking is a free/open source program to manage GPS data. You can import and plot tracks and waypoints, show OpenStreetMap and/or Terraserver maps under it, download geocaches for an area on the map, make new tracks and waypoints, see real-time GPS position, etc.
We can use yum or dnf to install viking on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install viking.
Install viking 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 viking using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install viking
Install viking 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 viking using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install viking
How To Uninstall viking on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the viking package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove viking
viking Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/viking
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ec
/usr/lib/.build-id/ec/33a5c0965b8d2010461ea874054a236e18ad54
/usr/share/applications/viking.desktop
/usr/share/doc/viking
/usr/share/doc/viking/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/viking/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/viking/ChangeLog.0
/usr/share/doc/viking/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/viking/README
/usr/share/doc/viking/TODO
/usr/share/gnome/help/viking
/usr/share/gnome/help/viking/C
/usr/share/gnome/help/viking/C/attribution.xml
/usr/share/gnome/help/viking/C/commandline.xml
/usr/share/gnome/help/viking/C/figures
/usr/share/gnome/help/viking/C/figures/Aggregate_statistics.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/viking/C/figures/Aggregate_statistics_years.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/viking/C/figures/DEM_file_info_dialog.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/viking/C/figures/LayersTracksList.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/viking/C/figures/LayersTracksStatistics.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/viking/C/figures/Maps_download_region_dialog.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/viking/C/figures/Track_elevation_graph.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/viking/C/figures/Track_properties.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/viking/C/figures/Track_statistics.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/viking/C/figures/Track_time_splits.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/viking/C/figures/Trackpoint_edit_dialog.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/viking/C/figures/Viking-OSM-CycleMap-ManyTracks.jpg
/usr/share/gnome/help/viking/C/figures/Viking-TAC.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/viking/C/figures/WaypointsList.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/viking/C/figures/addtr_18.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/viking/C/figures/addwp_18.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/viking/C/figures/customize_toolbar_dialog.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/viking/C/figures/demdl_18.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/viking/C/figures/edtr_18.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/viking/C/figures/edwp_18.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/viking/C/figures/geomove_18.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/viking/C/figures/geozoom_18.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/viking/C/figures/map_tile_info_dialog.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/viking/C/figures/mapdl_18.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/viking/C/figures/mover_22.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/viking/C/figures/properties_degree.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/viking/C/figures/properties_units.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/viking/C/figures/route_finder_18.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/viking/C/figures/ruler_18.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/viking/C/figures/select_18.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/viking/C/figures/showpic_18.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/viking/C/figures/trw_statusbar.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/viking/C/figures/vik_new_route_18.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/viking/C/figures/zoom_18.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/viking/C/figures/zoom_status_popup.png
/usr/share/gnome/help/viking/C/georef_layer.xml
/usr/share/gnome/help/viking/C/legal.xml
/usr/share/gnome/help/viking/C/mapnik_rendering_layer.xml
/usr/share/gnome/help/viking/C/recommends.xml
/usr/share/gnome/help/viking/C/viking.xml
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/viking.png
/usr/share/licenses/viking
/usr/share/licenses/viking/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/viking.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/viking.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/viking.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/viking.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/viking.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/viking.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/viking.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/viking.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/viking.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/viking.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/viking.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/viking.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/viking.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/viking.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/viking.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/viking.mo
/usr/share/locale/jv/LC_MESSAGES/viking.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/viking.mo
/usr/share/locale/ku/LC_MESSAGES/viking.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/viking.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/viking.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/viking.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/viking.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/viking.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/viking.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/viking.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/viking.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/viking.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/viking.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/viking.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/viking.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/viking.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/viking.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/viking.1.gz
/usr/share/omf/viking
/usr/share/omf/viking/viking-C.omf
/usr/share/viking
/usr/share/viking/datasources.xml
/usr/share/viking/external_tools.xml
/usr/share/viking/goto_tools.xml
/usr/share/viking/latlontz.txt
/usr/share/viking/maps.xml
/usr/share/viking/routing.xml
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install viking on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.