How To Install cawbird on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install cawbird in Fedora 36. cawbird is Fork of the Corebird GTK Twitter client that continues to work with Twitter

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cawbird on Fedora 36.

What is cawbird

Cawbird is a fork of the Corebird Twitter client from Baedert, which became unsupported after Twitter disabled the streaming API. Cawbird works with the new APIs and includes a few fixes and modifications that have historically been patched in to IBBoard’s custom Corebird build on his personal Open Build Service account.

We can use yum or dnf to install cawbird on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cawbird.

Install cawbird on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install cawbird using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install cawbird

Install cawbird on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install cawbird using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cawbird

How To Uninstall cawbird on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove cawbird

cawbird Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/cawbird
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/95
/usr/lib/.build-id/95/d1badce09a8ccc8ba932dd83b71983abbfd857
/usr/share/applications/uk.co.ibboard.cawbird.desktop
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/uk.co.ibboard.cawbird.service
/usr/share/doc/cawbird
/usr/share/doc/cawbird/README.md
/usr/share/doc/cawbird/notes.md
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/uk.co.ibboard.cawbird.gschema.xml
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/uk.co.ibboard.cawbird.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/uk.co.ibboard.cawbird.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/uk.co.ibboard.cawbird.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/uk.co.ibboard.cawbird.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/uk.co.ibboard.cawbird.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/96x96/apps/uk.co.ibboard.cawbird.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/uk.co.ibboard.cawbird.svg
/usr/share/licenses/cawbird
/usr/share/licenses/cawbird/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/de_DE/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/es_MX/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/es_VE/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/gd/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr_BA@latin/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk_UA/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/cawbird.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/cawbird.1.gz
/usr/share/metainfo/uk.co.ibboard.cawbird.appdata.xml

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cawbird on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).