How To Install nemo-preview on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install nemo-preview in Fedora 36. nemo-preview is A quick previewer for Nemo

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install nemo-preview on Fedora 36.

What is `nemo-preview`

Nemo Preview is a GtkClutter and Javascript-based quick previewer for Nemo. It is capable of previewing documents, PDFs, sound and video files, some text files, and possibly others in the future. To activate the preview, left-click the file and hit space. The preview can be closed by hitting space again, or escape.

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

Install nemo-preview 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 nemo-preview using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install nemo-preview

Install nemo-preview 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 nemo-preview using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install nemo-preview

How To Uninstall nemo-preview on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the nemo-preview package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove nemo-preview

nemo-preview Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/nemo-preview
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/00
/usr/lib/.build-id/00/fee2edc42ba49a6548216d52c1e594730ed663
/usr/lib/.build-id/83
/usr/lib/.build-id/83/380f04a5dc1cee1c82cd558ce62d730b591ae0
/usr/lib64/nemo-preview
/usr/lib64/nemo-preview/girepository-1.0
/usr/lib64/nemo-preview/girepository-1.0/NemoPreview-1.0.typelib
/usr/lib64/nemo-preview/libnemo-preview-1.0.so
/usr/libexec/nemo-preview-start
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.nemo.Preview.service
/usr/share/doc/nemo-preview
/usr/share/doc/nemo-preview/README
/usr/share/licenses/nemo-preview
/usr/share/licenses/nemo-preview/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/an/LC_MESSAGES/nemo-preview.mo
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/nemo-preview.mo
/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/nemo-preview.mo
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/nemo-preview.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/nemo-preview.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/nemo-preview.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_IN/LC_MESSAGES/nemo-preview.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/nemo-preview.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/nemo-preview.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/nemo-preview.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/nemo-preview.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/nemo-preview.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/nemo-preview.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/nemo-preview.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/nemo-preview.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/nemo-preview.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/nemo-preview.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/nemo-preview.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/nemo-preview.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/nemo-preview.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/nemo-preview.mo
/usr/share/locale/fur/LC_MESSAGES/nemo-preview.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/nemo-preview.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/nemo-preview.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/nemo-preview.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/nemo-preview.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/nemo-preview.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/nemo-preview.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/nemo-preview.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/nemo-preview.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/nemo-preview.mo
/usr/share/locale/kn/LC_MESSAGES/nemo-preview.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/nemo-preview.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/nemo-preview.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/nemo-preview.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/nemo-preview.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/nemo-preview.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/nemo-preview.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/nemo-preview.mo
/usr/share/locale/or/LC_MESSAGES/nemo-preview.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/nemo-preview.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/nemo-preview.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/nemo-preview.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/nemo-preview.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/nemo-preview.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/nemo-preview.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/nemo-preview.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/nemo-preview.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/nemo-preview.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/nemo-preview.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/nemo-preview.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/nemo-preview.mo
/usr/share/locale/tg/LC_MESSAGES/nemo-preview.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/nemo-preview.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/nemo-preview.mo
/usr/share/locale/ug/LC_MESSAGES/nemo-preview.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/nemo-preview.mo
/usr/share/locale/uz@cyrillic/LC_MESSAGES/nemo-preview.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/nemo-preview.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/nemo-preview.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_HK/LC_MESSAGES/nemo-preview.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/nemo-preview.mo
/usr/share/nemo-preview
/usr/share/nemo-preview/gir-1.0
/usr/share/nemo-preview/gir-1.0/NemoPreview-1.0.gir
/usr/share/nemo-preview/js
/usr/share/nemo-preview/js/ui
/usr/share/nemo-preview/js/ui/application.js
/usr/share/nemo-preview/js/ui/fallbackRenderer.js
/usr/share/nemo-preview/js/ui/main.js
/usr/share/nemo-preview/js/ui/mainWindow.js
/usr/share/nemo-preview/js/ui/mimeHandler.js
/usr/share/nemo-preview/js/ui/spinnerBox.js
/usr/share/nemo-preview/js/ui/tweener.js
/usr/share/nemo-preview/js/ui/utils.js
/usr/share/nemo-preview/js/util
/usr/share/nemo-preview/js/util/constants.js
/usr/share/nemo-preview/js/util/path.js
/usr/share/nemo-preview/js/util/totemMimeTypes.js
/usr/share/nemo-preview/js/viewers
/usr/share/nemo-preview/js/viewers/audio.js
/usr/share/nemo-preview/js/viewers/font.js
/usr/share/nemo-preview/js/viewers/gst.js
/usr/share/nemo-preview/js/viewers/html.js
/usr/share/nemo-preview/js/viewers/image.js
/usr/share/nemo-preview/js/viewers/text.js
/usr/share/nemo-preview/js/viewers/xreader.js

References

nemo-preview website

Summary

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