How To Install giver on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install giver in Fedora 36. giver is A simple file sharing desktop application

Introduction

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

What is giver

Giver is a simple file sharing desktop application. Other people running Giver on your network are automatically discovered and you can send files to them by simply dragging the files to their photo or icon shown in Giver. There is no knowledge or set up needed beyond what the person looks like or their name to use Giver.

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

Install giver 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 giver using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install giver

Install giver 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 giver using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install giver

How To Uninstall giver on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove giver

giver Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/giver
/usr/lib64/giver
/usr/lib64/giver/Giver.exe
/usr/lib64/giver/Giver.exe.config
/usr/share/applications/giver.desktop
/usr/share/doc/giver
/usr/share/doc/giver/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/giver/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/giver/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/giver/README
/usr/share/doc/giver/TODO
/usr/share/giver
/usr/share/giver/sounds
/usr/share/giver/sounds/notify.wav
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/giver.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/giver.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/giveroff.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/giver.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/giver.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/blankphoto.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/giver.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/gravatar.png
/usr/share/licenses/giver
/usr/share/licenses/giver/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/giver.mo
/usr/share/pixmaps/blankphoto.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/giver-16.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/giver-24.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/giver-256.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/giver-32.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/giver-48.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/giveroff-24.png
/usr/share/pixmaps/gravatar.png

References

Summary

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