How To Install zeitgeist on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install zeitgeist on Fedora 34.
What is zeitgeist
Zeitgeist is a service which logs the users’s activities and events (files opened, websites visites, conversations hold with other people, etc.) and makes relevant information available to other applications. Note that this package only contains the daemon, which you can use together with several different user interfaces.
We can use yum or dnf to install zeitgeist on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install zeitgeist.
Install zeitgeist 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 zeitgeist using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install zeitgeist
Install zeitgeist 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 zeitgeist using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install zeitgeist
How To Uninstall zeitgeist on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the zeitgeist package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove zeitgeist
zeitgeist Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/xdg/autostart/zeitgeist-datahub.desktop
/usr/bin/zeitgeist-daemon
/usr/bin/zeitgeist-datahub
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2a
/usr/lib/.build-id/2a/bbdaac17f464cf74839bdc66773081da9e462f
/usr/lib/.build-id/36
/usr/lib/.build-id/36/ff1181bb59b21d674ae7939f31a5dc871fbb34
/usr/lib/.build-id/6a
/usr/lib/.build-id/6a/69cc3c9d5de68c14c688182d5f4d96f8089b51
/usr/lib/systemd/user/zeitgeist-fts.service
/usr/lib/systemd/user/zeitgeist.service
/usr/libexec/zeitgeist
/usr/libexec/zeitgeist/zeitgeist-fts
/usr/share/bash-completion
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/zeitgeist-daemon
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.gnome.zeitgeist.Engine.service
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.gnome.zeitgeist.SimpleIndexer.service
/usr/share/doc/zeitgeist
/usr/share/doc/zeitgeist/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/zeitgeist/NEWS
/usr/share/licenses/zeitgeist
/usr/share/licenses/zeitgeist/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/zeitgeist/COPYING.GPL
/usr/share/man/man1/zeitgeist-daemon.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/zeitgeist-datahub.1.gz
/usr/share/zeitgeist
/usr/share/zeitgeist/ontology
/usr/share/zeitgeist/ontology/nao.trig
/usr/share/zeitgeist/ontology/ncal.trig
/usr/share/zeitgeist/ontology/nco.trig
/usr/share/zeitgeist/ontology/nfo.trig
/usr/share/zeitgeist/ontology/nie.trig
/usr/share/zeitgeist/ontology/nmm.trig
/usr/share/zeitgeist/ontology/nmo.trig
/usr/share/zeitgeist/ontology/zg.trig
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install zeitgeist on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.