How To Install fbida on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install fbida in Fedora 36. fbida is FrameBuffer Imageviewer

Introduction

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

What is `fbida`

fbi displays the specified file(s) on the linux console using the framebuffer device. PhotoCD, jpeg, ppm, gif, tiff, xwd, bmp and png are supported directly. For other formats fbi tries to use ImageMagick’s convert.

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

Install fbida 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 fbida using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fbida

Install fbida 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 fbida using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fbida

How To Uninstall fbida on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove fbida

fbida Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/exiftran
/usr/bin/fbi
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/19
/usr/lib/.build-id/19/871ff6c2dc9105a3fbdcfb40151d62fc3d3d8d
/usr/lib/.build-id/ef
/usr/lib/.build-id/ef/e9d5933ae9bc394b46c2a57e820eb1c961f18d
/usr/share/doc/fbida
/usr/share/doc/fbida/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/fbida/Changes
/usr/share/doc/fbida/README
/usr/share/doc/fbida/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/fbida
/usr/share/licenses/fbida/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/exiftran.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/fbi.1.gz

References

fbida website

Summary

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