How To Install merkaartor on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install merkaartor in Fedora 36. merkaartor is Qt-Based OpenStreetMap editor

Introduction

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

What is merkaartor

Merkaartor is a small editor for OpenStreetMap available under the GNU General Public License and developed using the Qt toolkit. It has some unique features like anti-aliased displaying, transparent display of map features like roads and curved roads.

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

Install merkaartor 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 merkaartor using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install merkaartor

Install merkaartor 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 merkaartor using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install merkaartor

How To Uninstall merkaartor on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove merkaartor

merkaartor Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/merkaartor
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0a
/usr/lib/.build-id/0a/4cb5f36bec25c7303cd14c88c5d3e32ad7bf5b
/usr/lib/.build-id/37
/usr/lib/.build-id/37/31c043ff870f0426bffc6c1e397a606a227f8f
/usr/lib/.build-id/41
/usr/lib/.build-id/41/64a9a04af91de6e14ac8d2e66e6f0b1942015f
/usr/lib/.build-id/68
/usr/lib/.build-id/68/23ba19f019a1d06da46e15864c933072bc1694
/usr/lib/.build-id/fe
/usr/lib/.build-id/fe/f1493c6733bed0237698f84ef5916251dda821
/usr/lib64/merkaartor/plugins
/usr/lib64/merkaartor/plugins/background
/usr/lib64/merkaartor/plugins/background/libMGdalBackgroundPlugin.so
/usr/lib64/merkaartor/plugins/background/libMGeoTiffBackgroundPlugin.so
/usr/lib64/merkaartor/plugins/background/libMMsBingMapBackgroundPlugin.so
/usr/lib64/merkaartor/plugins/background/libMWalkingPapersBackgroundPlugin.so
/usr/share/applications/org.merkaartor.merkaartor.desktop
/usr/share/doc/merkaartor
/usr/share/doc/merkaartor/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/merkaartor/CHANGELOG
/usr/share/doc/merkaartor/HACKING.md
/usr/share/doc/merkaartor/LICENSE
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/merkaartor.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/merkaartor.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/192x192/apps/merkaartor.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/merkaartor.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/merkaartor.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/merkaartor.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/merkaartor.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/36x36/apps/merkaartor.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/40x40/apps/merkaartor.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/42x42/apps/merkaartor.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/merkaartor.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/512x512/apps/merkaartor.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/merkaartor.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/72x72/apps/merkaartor.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/80x80/apps/merkaartor.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/8x8/apps/merkaartor.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/96x96/apps/merkaartor.png
/usr/share/merkaartor
/usr/share/merkaartor/BookmarksList.xml
/usr/share/merkaartor/Projections.xml
/usr/share/merkaartor/TmsServersList.xml
/usr/share/merkaartor/WmsServersList.xml
/usr/share/merkaartor/translations
/usr/share/merkaartor/translations/merkaartor_ar.qm
/usr/share/merkaartor/translations/merkaartor_cs.qm
/usr/share/merkaartor/translations/merkaartor_de.qm
/usr/share/merkaartor/translations/merkaartor_de_AT.qm
/usr/share/merkaartor/translations/merkaartor_en.qm
/usr/share/merkaartor/translations/merkaartor_es.qm
/usr/share/merkaartor/translations/merkaartor_et.qm
/usr/share/merkaartor/translations/merkaartor_fr.qm
/usr/share/merkaartor/translations/merkaartor_hr.qm
/usr/share/merkaartor/translations/merkaartor_hu.qm
/usr/share/merkaartor/translations/merkaartor_it.qm
/usr/share/merkaartor/translations/merkaartor_ja.qm
/usr/share/merkaartor/translations/merkaartor_nl.qm
/usr/share/merkaartor/translations/merkaartor_pl.qm
/usr/share/merkaartor/translations/merkaartor_pt.qm
/usr/share/merkaartor/translations/merkaartor_pt_BR.qm
/usr/share/merkaartor/translations/merkaartor_ru.qm
/usr/share/merkaartor/translations/merkaartor_sk.qm
/usr/share/merkaartor/translations/merkaartor_sv.qm
/usr/share/merkaartor/translations/merkaartor_uk.qm
/usr/share/merkaartor/translations/merkaartor_vi.qm
/usr/share/merkaartor/translations/merkaartor_zh_CN.qm
/usr/share/merkaartor/translations/merkaartor_zh_TW.qm

References

Summary

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