How To Install cinnamon-menus on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install cinnamon-menus in Fedora 36. cinnamon-menus is A menu system for the Cinnamon project

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cinnamon-menus on Fedora 36.

What is cinnamon-menus

cinnamon-menus is an implementation of the draft “Desktop Menu Specification” from freedesktop.org. This package also contains the Cinnamon menu layout configuration files, .directory files and assorted menu related utility programs, Python bindings, and a simple menu editor.

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

Install cinnamon-menus 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 cinnamon-menus using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install cinnamon-menus

Install cinnamon-menus 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 cinnamon-menus using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cinnamon-menus

How To Uninstall cinnamon-menus on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the cinnamon-menus package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove cinnamon-menus

cinnamon-menus Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2c
/usr/lib/.build-id/2c/3ad188068499ed1fdff59b4a695495b5ff474d
/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0/CMenu-3.0.typelib
/usr/lib64/libcinnamon-menu-3.so.0
/usr/lib64/libcinnamon-menu-3.so.0.0.1
/usr/share/doc/cinnamon-menus
/usr/share/doc/cinnamon-menus/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/cinnamon-menus/NEWS
/usr/share/licenses/cinnamon-menus
/usr/share/licenses/cinnamon-menus/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/cinnamon-menus/COPYING.LIB

References

Summary

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