How To Install kiwix-desktop on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install kiwix-desktop in Fedora 36. kiwix-desktop is Kiwix desktop application

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install kiwix-desktop on Fedora 36.

What is `kiwix-desktop`

The Kiwix-desktop is a view/manager of zim files for GNU/Linux and Windows. You can download and view your zim files as you which.

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

Install kiwix-desktop 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 kiwix-desktop using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install kiwix-desktop

Install kiwix-desktop 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 kiwix-desktop using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install kiwix-desktop

How To Uninstall kiwix-desktop on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the kiwix-desktop package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove kiwix-desktop

kiwix-desktop Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/kiwix-desktop
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/d5
/usr/lib/.build-id/d5/62d9275ae705f01592e76cc16dcafb3cf40796
/usr/share/applications/org.kiwix.desktop.desktop
/usr/share/doc/kiwix-desktop
/usr/share/doc/kiwix-desktop/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/kiwix-desktop/README.md
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/kiwix-desktop.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/kiwix-desktop.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/kiwix-desktop.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/kiwix-desktop.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/kiwix-desktop.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/kiwix-desktop.svg
/usr/share/licenses/kiwix-desktop
/usr/share/licenses/kiwix-desktop/LICENSE
/usr/share/metainfo/org.kiwix.desktop.appdata.xml
/usr/share/mime/packages/org.kiwix.desktop-mime.xml

References

kiwix-desktop website

Summary

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