How To Install nik4 on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install nik4 in Fedora 36. nik4 is Command-line interface to a Mapnik rendering toolkit

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install nik4 on Fedora 36.

What is `nik4`

Nik4 is a mapnik-to-image exporting script.

We can use yum or dnf to install nik4 on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install nik4.

Install nik4 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 nik4 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install nik4

Install nik4 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 nik4 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install nik4

How To Uninstall nik4 on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the nik4 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove nik4

nik4 Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/nik4
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/Nik4-1.6.0-py3.10.egg-info
/usr/share/doc/nik4
/usr/share/doc/nik4/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/nik4
/usr/share/licenses/nik4/LICENSE.txt

References

nik4 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install nik4 on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).