How To Install vkeybd on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install vkeybd on Fedora 34.
What is vkeybd
This is a virtual keyboard for AWE, MIDI and ALSA drivers. It’s a simple fake of a MIDI keyboard on X-windows system. Enjoy a music with your mouse and “computer” keyboard
We can use yum or dnf to install vkeybd on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install vkeybd.
Install vkeybd 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 vkeybd using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install vkeybd
Install vkeybd 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 vkeybd using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install vkeybd
How To Uninstall vkeybd on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the vkeybd package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove vkeybd
vkeybd Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/sftovkb
/usr/bin/vkeybd
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2b
/usr/lib/.build-id/2b/98c2aa8b77b0c59cd0814a864bcaba0bc9976e
/usr/lib/.build-id/9b
/usr/lib/.build-id/9b/49f273ba6a41f0ef3b390747d72a6706c884ad
/usr/share/applications/vkeybd.desktop
/usr/share/doc/vkeybd
/usr/share/doc/vkeybd/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/vkeybd/README
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/vkeybd.png
/usr/share/man/man1/vkeybd.1.gz
/usr/share/vkeybd
/usr/share/vkeybd/vkeybd.list
/usr/share/vkeybd/vkeybd.tcl
/usr/share/vkeybd/vkeybdmap
/usr/share/vkeybd/vkeybdmap-de
/usr/share/vkeybd/vkeybdmap-es
/usr/share/vkeybd/vkeybdmap-fr
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install vkeybd on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.