How To Install ydotool on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ydotool
on Fedora 34.
What is ydotool
Performs some of the functions of xdotool(1) without requiring X11 - however, it generally requires root permission (to open /dev/uinput) NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE NOTE SEE Currently implemented command(s) - type - Type a string - key - Press keys - mousemove - Move mouse pointer to absolute position - click - Click on mouse buttons - recorder - Record/replay input events - sleep - sleep ms N.B. it is strongly recommended to start the ydotoold daemon with - systemctl enable ydotool - systemctl start ydotool
We can use yum
or dnf
to install ydotool
on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ydotool.
Install ydotool 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 ydotool
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ydotool
Install ydotool 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 ydotool
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install ydotool
How To Uninstall ydotool on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the ydotool
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ydotool
ydotool Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/ydotool
/usr/bin/ydotoold
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/38
/usr/lib/.build-id/38/c778d532429a25748a1c1c74c62afa7922f225
/usr/lib/.build-id/69
/usr/lib/.build-id/69/31dd9811a3f4c288bfd70a4e8cc448d03ef01f
/usr/lib/systemd/system/ydotool.service
/usr/share/doc/ydotool
/usr/share/doc/ydotool/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/ydotool
/usr/share/licenses/ydotool/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/ydotool.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ydotoold.8.gz
/usr/bin/ydotool
/usr/bin/ydotoold
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5a
/usr/lib/.build-id/5a/d9bb67b1d652a77af2221971b4b6a9f178295f
/usr/lib/.build-id/e5
/usr/lib/.build-id/e5/b0f49e92536c582479e8295147160051edd730
/usr/lib/systemd/system/ydotool.service
/usr/share/doc/ydotool
/usr/share/doc/ydotool/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/ydotool
/usr/share/licenses/ydotool/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/ydotool.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/ydotoold.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ydotool
on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.