How To Install xscope on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install xscope
on Fedora 34.
What is xscope
xscope sits in-between an X11 client and an X11 server and prints the contents of each request, reply, error, or event that is communicated between them. This information can be useful in debugging and performance tuning of X11 servers and clients.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install xscope
on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install xscope.
Install xscope 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 xscope
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install xscope
Install xscope 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 xscope
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install xscope
How To Uninstall xscope on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the xscope
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove xscope
xscope Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/xscope
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f7
/usr/lib/.build-id/f7/180807ffb45d65365b37b76dbe4c397139bbe4
/usr/share/doc/xscope
/usr/share/doc/xscope/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/xscope/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/xscope/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/xscope/README
/usr/share/licenses/xscope
/usr/share/licenses/xscope/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/xscope.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xscope
on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.