How To Install xfhell on Fedora 34

xfhell is GTK based Ham Radio application for the Hellschreiber communications mode

Introduction

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

What is xfhell

xfhell is a GTK+ application for the “fuzzy” digital amateur radio communication mode known as Hellschreiber.

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

Install xfhell 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 xfhell using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install xfhell

Install xfhell 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 xfhell using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install xfhell

How To Uninstall xfhell on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove xfhell

xfhell Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/xfhell
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/51
/usr/lib/.build-id/51/7af7c41bfd097e4adb28c3a6f817eec6fff101
/usr/share/applications/xfhell.desktop
/usr/share/doc/xfhell
/usr/share/doc/xfhell/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/xfhell/BDF_Spec.pdf
/usr/share/doc/xfhell/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/xfhell/README
/usr/share/doc/xfhell/xfhell.html
/usr/share/man/man1/xfhell.1.gz
/usr/share/pixmaps/xfhell.png

References

Summary

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