How To Install xpa on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install xpa on Fedora 34.
What is xpa
The XPA messaging system provides seamless communication between many kinds of Unix programs, including X programs and Tcl/Tk programs. It also provides an easy way for users to communicate with these XPA-enabled programs by executing XPA client commands in the shell or by utilizing such commands in scripts. This package contains command-line utilities for managing XPA.
We can use yum or dnf to install xpa on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install xpa.
Install xpa 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 xpa using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install xpa
Install xpa 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 xpa using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install xpa
How To Uninstall xpa on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the xpa package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove xpa
xpa Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/xpaaccess
/usr/bin/xpaget
/usr/bin/xpainfo
/usr/bin/xpamb
/usr/bin/xpans
/usr/bin/xpaset
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/10
/usr/lib/.build-id/10/a67a3bcf9903df908eafbdd8b67da80dc5dc5d
/usr/lib/.build-id/3d
/usr/lib/.build-id/3d/d06e3b004b02526fef5f0a6a366af43e02669f
/usr/lib/.build-id/74
/usr/lib/.build-id/74/7520711ba74c6b6e7490667800a61b6ff43e7c
/usr/lib/.build-id/76
/usr/lib/.build-id/76/6a2c4a58e7e7d4061c4089200e2c56f9ffa127
/usr/lib/.build-id/a6
/usr/lib/.build-id/a6/ffbf9405caf065fe6f75ffd6332a3c551ee1d3
/usr/lib/.build-id/b0
/usr/lib/.build-id/b0/c3bfa25ad9bd39f887481adf6195745542c273
/usr/share/man/man1/xpaaccess.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/xpachanges.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/xpaget.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/xpainfo.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/xpamb.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/xpans.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/xpaset.1.gz
/usr/share/xpa
/usr/share/xpa/xpa4.index
/usr/share/xpa/xpa4.index.prop
/usr/share/xpa/xpa4.index.version
/usr/share/xpa/xpa8.index
/usr/share/xpa/xpa8.index.prop
/usr/share/xpa/xpa8.index.version
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xpa on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.