How To Install xcursorgen on Fedora 34

xcursorgen is Prepare X11 cursor sets for use with libXcursor

Introduction

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

What is xcursorgen

xcursorgen prepares X11 cursor sets for use with libXcursor.

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

Install xcursorgen 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 xcursorgen using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install xcursorgen

Install xcursorgen 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 xcursorgen using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install xcursorgen

How To Uninstall xcursorgen on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove xcursorgen

xcursorgen Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/xcursorgen
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/40
/usr/lib/.build-id/40/07cecff418eb45a153830340b2a05181015e7e
/usr/share/licenses/xcursorgen
/usr/share/licenses/xcursorgen/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/xcursorgen.1.gz

References

Summary

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