How To Install dnfdragora-updater on Fedora 36

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install dnfdragora-updater on Fedora 36.

What is dnfdragora-updater

dnfdragora is a DNF frontend, based on rpmdragora from Mageia (originally rpmdrake) Perl code. dnfdragora is written in Python 3 and uses libYui, the widget abstraction library written by SUSE, so that it can be run using Qt 5, GTK+ 3, or ncurses interfaces. This package provides the update notifier applet for dnfdragora.

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

Install dnfdragora-updater 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 dnfdragora-updater using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install dnfdragora-updater

Install dnfdragora-updater 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 dnfdragora-updater using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install dnfdragora-updater

How To Uninstall dnfdragora-updater on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the dnfdragora-updater package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove dnfdragora-updater

dnfdragora-updater Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/xdg/autostart/org.mageia.dnfdragora-updater.desktop
/usr/bin/dnfdragora-updater
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/dnfdragora/__pycache__/updater.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/dnfdragora/__pycache__/updater.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/dnfdragora/updater.py
/usr/share/applications/org.mageia.dnfdragora-updater.desktop

References

• dnfdragora-updater website

Summary

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