How To Install zinnia on Fedora 34

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Introduction

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

What is `zinnia`

Zinnia provides a simple, customizable, and portable dynamic OCR system for hand-written input, based on Support Vector Machines. Zinnia simply receives user pen strokes as coordinate data and outputs the best matching characters sorted by SVM confidence. To maintain portability, it has no rendering functionality. In addition to recognition, Zinnia provides a training module capable of creating highly efficient handwriting recognition models. This package contains the shared libraries. zinnia 0.06 51.fc34 x86_64 63 k zinnia-0.06-51.fc34.src.rpm fedora Online handwriting recognition system with machine learning http BSD Zinnia provides a simple, customizable, and portable dynamic OCR system for hand-written input, based on Support Vector Machines. Zinnia simply receives user pen strokes as coordinate data and outputs the best matching characters sorted by SVM confidence. To maintain portability, it has no rendering functionality. In addition to recognition, Zinnia provides a training module capable of creating highly efficient handwriting recognition models. This package contains the shared libraries.

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

Install zinnia 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 zinnia using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install zinnia

Install zinnia 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 zinnia using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install zinnia

How To Uninstall zinnia on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove zinnia

zinnia Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/15
/usr/lib/.build-id/15/fbe22d588495b9210df248b8904ef45fd7aa98
/usr/lib/libzinnia.so.0
/usr/lib/libzinnia.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/zinnia
/usr/share/doc/zinnia/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/zinnia/README
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/bc
/usr/lib/.build-id/bc/633d574564c3dfcadc303580a90b22ae624d7f
/usr/lib64/libzinnia.so.0
/usr/lib64/libzinnia.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/zinnia
/usr/share/doc/zinnia/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/zinnia/README

References

[zinnia website](http://zinnia.sourceforge.net/ http://zinnia.sourceforge.net/)

Summary

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