How To Install jfbterm on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install jfbterm in Fedora 36. jfbterm is Japanese Console for Linux Frame Buffer Device

Introduction

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

What is `jfbterm`

JFBTERM/ME takes advantages of framebuffer device that is supported since linux kernel 2.2.x (at least on ix86 architecture) and make it enable to display multilingual text on console. It is developed on ix86 architecture, and it will works on other architectures such as linux/ppc. Features * It works with framebuffer device instead of VGA. * It supports pcf format font * It is not so fast because it doesn’t take any advantages of accelaration. * It also support coding systems other than ISO-2022, such as SHIFT-JIS by using iconv(3). * It is userland program.

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

Install jfbterm 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 jfbterm using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install jfbterm

Install jfbterm 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 jfbterm using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install jfbterm

How To Uninstall jfbterm on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove jfbterm

jfbterm Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/jfbterm.conf
/etc/security/console.perms.d/60-jfbterm.perms
/usr/bin/jfbterm
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/4b
/usr/lib/.build-id/4b/9207560e9011de39d63a721c20739ff6937325
/usr/share/doc/jfbterm
/usr/share/doc/jfbterm/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/jfbterm/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/jfbterm/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/jfbterm/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/jfbterm/README
/usr/share/doc/jfbterm/README.ja
/usr/share/doc/jfbterm/jfbterm.termcap
/usr/share/fonts
/usr/share/fonts/jfbterm
/usr/share/fonts/jfbterm/8x13-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/jfbterm/8x13-ISO8859-14.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/jfbterm/8x13-ISO8859-15.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/jfbterm/8x13-ISO8859-2.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/jfbterm/8x13-ISO8859-5.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/jfbterm/8x13-ISO8859-7.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/jfbterm/8x13-ISO8859-8.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/jfbterm/8x13-ISO8859-9.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/jfbterm/8x16.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/jfbterm/b16.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/jfbterm/gb16fs.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/jfbterm/jisksp16-1990.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/jfbterm/shnm8x16r.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/jfbterm/shnmk16.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/jfbterm/vt100-graphics.pcf.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/jfbterm.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/jfbterm.conf.5.gz

References

jfbterm website

Summary

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