How To Install xdaliclock on Fedora 34

xdaliclock is A clock for the X Window System

Introduction

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

What is xdaliclock

XDaliClock is a large digital clock for the X Window System, with digits that “melt” into their new shapes when the time changes. XDaliClock supports 12 and 24 hour modes, and displays the date when you hold a mouse button down over it. It also can be configured to do colormap cycling, and for window transparency.

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

Install xdaliclock 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 xdaliclock using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install xdaliclock

Install xdaliclock 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 xdaliclock using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install xdaliclock

How To Uninstall xdaliclock on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove xdaliclock

xdaliclock Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/xdaliclock
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/68
/usr/lib/.build-id/68/06e125b67c24a5af786969e2a06473a800d32d
/usr/share/X11/app-defaults/XDaliClock
/usr/share/applications/xdaliclock.desktop
/usr/share/doc/xdaliclock
/usr/share/doc/xdaliclock/README
/usr/share/man/man1/xdaliclock.1.gz

References

Summary

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