How To Install kmplayer on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install kmplayer in Fedora 36. kmplayer is A simple front-end for MPlayer/FFMpeg/Phonon

Introduction

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

What is `kmplayer`

KMPlayer, a simple front-end for MPlayer/FFMpeg/Phonon. It can play DVD/VCD movies, from file or URL and from a video device. KMPlayer can embed inside Konqueror. Which means if you click on a movie file, the movie is played inside Konqueror.

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

Install kmplayer 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 kmplayer using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install kmplayer

Install kmplayer 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 kmplayer using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install kmplayer

How To Uninstall kmplayer on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove kmplayer

kmplayer Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/xdg/kmplayerrc
/usr/bin/kmplayer
/usr/bin/kphononplayer
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6f
/usr/lib/.build-id/6f/b6b138f91ec217b40ab1c2640079167da91818
/usr/lib/.build-id/70
/usr/lib/.build-id/70/85a95b502a6371278c2ce58f787d32e60de3e3
/usr/lib/.build-id/bf
/usr/lib/.build-id/bf/12ffb0eba00311c2e3ba3884d9b43c3b55d179
/usr/lib/.build-id/c3
/usr/lib/.build-id/c3/d4fdf278fb9dfaf8f6c3705b8e4d1f037e722c
/usr/lib/.build-id/f6
/usr/lib/.build-id/f6/3dc6176c6a4e24359ae33eaa34e60f8d344aa4
/usr/lib64/libkdeinit5_kmplayer.so
/usr/lib64/libkmplayercommon.so
/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kmplayerpart.so
/usr/share/applications/kmplayer.desktop
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kmplayer
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kmplayer/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kmplayer/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/kmplayer
/usr/share/doc/kmplayer/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/kmplayer/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/kmplayer/COPYING.DOC
/usr/share/doc/kmplayer/COPYING.LIB
/usr/share/doc/kmplayer/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/kmplayer/README
/usr/share/doc/kmplayer/TODO
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/kmplayer.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/kmplayer.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/kmplayer.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/kmplayer.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/kmplayer.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/kmplayer.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/kmplayer.svgz
/usr/share/kmplayer/blip-api.xsl
/usr/share/kmplayer/bookmarks.xml
/usr/share/kmplayer/find-media.sh
/usr/share/kmplayer/generators
/usr/share/kmplayer/generators/blip-tv.xml
/usr/share/kmplayer/generators/find-media.xml
/usr/share/kmplayer/generators/shoutcast.xml
/usr/share/kmplayer/generators/youtube-query.xml
/usr/share/kmplayer/pluginsinfo
/usr/share/kmplayer/shoutcast.xsl
/usr/share/kmplayer/youtube.xsl
/usr/share/kservices5/kmplayer_part.desktop
/usr/share/kxmlgui5/kmplayer/kmplayerpartui.rc
/usr/share/kxmlgui5/kmplayer/kmplayerui.rc
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/kmplayer.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/kmplayer.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/kmplayer.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/kmplayer.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/kmplayer.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/kmplayer.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/kmplayer.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/kmplayer.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/kmplayer.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/kmplayer.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/kmplayer.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/kmplayer.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/kmplayer.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/kmplayer.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/kmplayer.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/kmplayer.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/kmplayer.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/kmplayer.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/kmplayer.mo
/usr/share/locale/km/LC_MESSAGES/kmplayer.mo
/usr/share/locale/ku/LC_MESSAGES/kmplayer.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/kmplayer.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/kmplayer.mo
/usr/share/locale/mai/LC_MESSAGES/kmplayer.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/kmplayer.mo
/usr/share/locale/nds/LC_MESSAGES/kmplayer.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/kmplayer.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/kmplayer.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/kmplayer.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/kmplayer.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/kmplayer.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/kmplayer.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/kmplayer.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/kmplayer.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/kmplayer.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/kmplayer.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/kmplayer.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/kmplayer.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/kmplayer.mo
/usr/share/locale/ug/LC_MESSAGES/kmplayer.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/kmplayer.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/kmplayer.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/kmplayer.mo

References

kmplayer website

Summary

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