How To Install gnome-characters on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-characters in Fedora 36. gnome-characters is Character map application for GNOME

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-characters on Fedora 36.

What is `gnome-characters`

Characters is a simple utility application to find and insert unusual characters.

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

Install gnome-characters 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 gnome-characters using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gnome-characters

Install gnome-characters 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 gnome-characters using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gnome-characters

How To Uninstall gnome-characters on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the gnome-characters package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove gnome-characters

gnome-characters Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/gnome-characters
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/68
/usr/lib/.build-id/68/724a57ce3dfd3f2cfb477034ef8c2a7daf8a2a
/usr/lib64/org.gnome.Characters
/usr/lib64/org.gnome.Characters/girepository-1.0
/usr/lib64/org.gnome.Characters/girepository-1.0/Gc-1.0.typelib
/usr/lib64/org.gnome.Characters/libgc.so
/usr/share/applications/org.gnome.Characters.desktop
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.gnome.Characters.service
/usr/share/doc/gnome-characters
/usr/share/doc/gnome-characters/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/gnome-characters/README.md
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.Characters.gschema.xml
/usr/share/gnome-shell/search-providers/org.gnome.Characters.search-provider.ini
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/org.gnome.Characters.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/symbolic/apps/org.gnome.Characters-symbolic.svg
/usr/share/licenses/gnome-characters
/usr/share/licenses/gnome-characters/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/gnome-characters/COPYINGv2
/usr/share/locale/ab/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/af/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/ckb/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/fur/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/fy/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/gd/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/ln/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/ne/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/sat/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/tg/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/org.gnome.Characters.mo
/usr/share/metainfo/org.gnome.Characters.appdata.xml
/usr/share/org.gnome.Characters
/usr/share/org.gnome.Characters/gir-1.0
/usr/share/org.gnome.Characters/gir-1.0/Gc-1.0.gir
/usr/share/org.gnome.Characters/org.gnome.Characters
/usr/share/org.gnome.Characters/org.gnome.Characters.data.gresource
/usr/share/org.gnome.Characters/org.gnome.Characters.src.gresource

References

gnome-characters website

Summary

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