How To Install lirc-tools-gui on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install lirc-tools-gui in Fedora 36. lirc-tools-gui is LIRC GUI tools

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install lirc-tools-gui on Fedora 36.

What is `lirc-tools-gui`

Part of the LIRC package suite which handles IR remotes. See the package lirc for more. This package contains some seldom used X11-based tools for debugging lirc configurations.

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

Install lirc-tools-gui 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 lirc-tools-gui using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install lirc-tools-gui

Install lirc-tools-gui 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 lirc-tools-gui using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install lirc-tools-gui

How To Uninstall lirc-tools-gui on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the lirc-tools-gui package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove lirc-tools-gui

lirc-tools-gui Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/irxevent
/usr/bin/xmode2
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c2/819896e0a3c9dde29f9d3f9812085d35090a94
/usr/lib/.build-id/ef/07c6f8e1e17ce7961ffb51a0b48eaa24e25f1b
/usr/share/man/man1/irxevent.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/xmode2.1.gz

References

lirc-tools-gui website

Summary

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