How To Install nfoview on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install nfoview in Fedora 36. nfoview is Viewer for NFO files

Introduction

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

What is `nfoview`

NFO Viewer is a simple viewer for NFO files, which are “ASCII” art in the CP437 codepage. The advantages of using NFO Viewer instead of a text editor are preset font and encoding settings, automatic window size and clickable hyperlinks.

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

Install nfoview 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 nfoview using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install nfoview

Install nfoview 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 nfoview using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install nfoview

How To Uninstall nfoview on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove nfoview

nfoview Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/nfoview
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/nfoview
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/nfoview-1.28.1-py3.10.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/nfoview/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/nfoview/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/nfoview/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/nfoview/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/nfoview/__pycache__/about.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/nfoview/__pycache__/about.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/nfoview/__pycache__/action.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/nfoview/__pycache__/action.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/nfoview/__pycache__/actions.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/nfoview/__pycache__/actions.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/nfoview/__pycache__/application.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/nfoview/__pycache__/application.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/nfoview/__pycache__/builder.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/nfoview/__pycache__/builder.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/nfoview/__pycache__/config.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/nfoview/__pycache__/config.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/nfoview/__pycache__/errors.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/nfoview/__pycache__/errors.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/nfoview/__pycache__/export.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/nfoview/__pycache__/export.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/nfoview/__pycache__/i18n.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/nfoview/__pycache__/i18n.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/nfoview/__pycache__/open.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/nfoview/__pycache__/open.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/nfoview/__pycache__/paths.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/nfoview/__pycache__/paths.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/nfoview/__pycache__/preferences.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/nfoview/__pycache__/preferences.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/nfoview/__pycache__/schemes.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/nfoview/__pycache__/schemes.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/nfoview/__pycache__/unittest.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/nfoview/__pycache__/unittest.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/nfoview/__pycache__/util.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/nfoview/__pycache__/util.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/nfoview/__pycache__/view.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/nfoview/__pycache__/view.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/nfoview/__pycache__/window.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/nfoview/__pycache__/window.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/nfoview/about.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/nfoview/action.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/nfoview/actions.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/nfoview/application.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/nfoview/builder.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/nfoview/config.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/nfoview/errors.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/nfoview/export.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/nfoview/i18n.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/nfoview/open.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/nfoview/paths.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/nfoview/preferences.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/nfoview/schemes.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/nfoview/unittest.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/nfoview/util.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/nfoview/view.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/nfoview/window.py
/usr/share/applications/io.otsaloma.nfoview.desktop
/usr/share/doc/nfoview
/usr/share/doc/nfoview/AUTHORS.md
/usr/share/doc/nfoview/NEWS.md
/usr/share/doc/nfoview/README.md
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/io.otsaloma.nfoview.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/symbolic/apps/io.otsaloma.nfoview-symbolic.svg
/usr/share/licenses/nfoview
/usr/share/licenses/nfoview/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/nfoview.mo
/usr/share/locale/br/LC_MESSAGES/nfoview.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/nfoview.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/nfoview.mo
/usr/share/locale/de_CH/LC_MESSAGES/nfoview.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/nfoview.mo
/usr/share/locale/es_ES/LC_MESSAGES/nfoview.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/nfoview.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/nfoview.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/nfoview.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/nfoview.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/nfoview.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/nfoview.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/nfoview.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/nfoview.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_PT/LC_MESSAGES/nfoview.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/nfoview.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/nfoview.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/nfoview.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/nfoview.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/nfoview.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/nfoview.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/nfoview.1.gz
/usr/share/metainfo/io.otsaloma.nfoview.appdata.xml
/usr/share/nfoview
/usr/share/nfoview/menu.ui
/usr/share/nfoview/preferences-dialog.ui

References

nfoview website

Summary

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