How To Install gnome-user-share on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-user-share in Fedora 36. gnome-user-share is Gnome user file sharing

Introduction

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

What is gnome-user-share

gnome-user-share is a small package that binds together various free software projects to bring easy to use user-level file sharing to the masses. The program is meant to run in the background when the user is logged in, and when file sharing is enabled a webdav server is started that shares the $HOME/Public folder. The share is then published to all computers on the local network using mDNS/rendezvous, so that it shows up in the Network location in GNOME.

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

Install gnome-user-share 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-user-share using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gnome-user-share

Install gnome-user-share 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-user-share using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gnome-user-share

How To Uninstall gnome-user-share on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove gnome-user-share

gnome-user-share Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c9
/usr/lib/.build-id/c9/a418fea354e5d2f2e3cd48c7b789b83df56c11
/usr/lib/.build-id/cd
/usr/lib/.build-id/cd/188f426ecadff20daa158938c017d06eed6c97
/usr/lib/systemd/user/gnome-user-share-webdav.service
/usr/lib64/nautilus/extensions-3.0/libnautilus-share-extension.so
/usr/libexec/gnome-user-share-webdav
/usr/share/GConf/gsettings/gnome-user-share.convert
/usr/share/applications/gnome-user-share-webdav.desktop
/usr/share/doc/gnome-user-share
/usr/share/doc/gnome-user-share/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/gnome-user-share/README
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.desktop.file-sharing.gschema.xml
/usr/share/gnome-user-share
/usr/share/gnome-user-share/dav_groupfile
/usr/share/gnome-user-share/dav_user_2.0.conf
/usr/share/gnome-user-share/dav_user_2.2.conf
/usr/share/gnome-user-share/dav_user_2.4.conf
/usr/share/licenses/gnome-user-share
/usr/share/licenses/gnome-user-share/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/af/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/an/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_IN/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/br/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/dz/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/en@shaw/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_CA/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/fur/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/gd/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/km/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/kn/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/ln/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/mai/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/mjw/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/mk/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/ne/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/or/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/rw/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/sq/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/tg/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/ug/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_HK/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-user-share.mo

References

Summary

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