How To Install plank-docklets on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install plank-docklets
on Fedora 36.
What is plank-docklets
Plank is meant to be the simplest dock on the planet. The goal is to provide just what a dock needs and absolutely nothing more. It is, however, a library which can be extended to create other dock programs with more advanced features. Thus, Plank is the underlying technology for Docky (starting in version 3.0.0) and aims to provide all the core features while Docky extends it to add fancier things like Docklets, painters, settings dialogs, etc. This package contains the docklets for plank.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install plank-docklets
on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install plank-docklets.
Install plank-docklets 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 plank-docklets
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install plank-docklets
Install plank-docklets 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 plank-docklets
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install plank-docklets
How To Uninstall plank-docklets on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the plank-docklets
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove plank-docklets
plank-docklets Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2d
/usr/lib/.build-id/2d/ddac78770b3f2ba918f4a1ce0661f904c65674
/usr/lib/.build-id/30
/usr/lib/.build-id/30/47a3f563fbb3af7bdc7cc8cd645a364f6a4262
/usr/lib/.build-id/3c
/usr/lib/.build-id/3c/62c8fda19771694e930053723c665cb15db281
/usr/lib/.build-id/8e
/usr/lib/.build-id/8e/1f8d69460edc51966069c1c8850374c8ab3828
/usr/lib/.build-id/c9
/usr/lib/.build-id/c9/7fa1e9dc72d752e0b3496d7120486ac605fa6a
/usr/lib/.build-id/f3
/usr/lib/.build-id/f3/9de1e70683f1699e979d44fe234a7b749c77af
/usr/lib/.build-id/fd
/usr/lib/.build-id/fd/4efedca75fa782b07850c295f467f75deb2e16
/usr/lib64/plank/docklets
/usr/lib64/plank/docklets/libdocklet-applications.so
/usr/lib64/plank/docklets/libdocklet-battery.so
/usr/lib64/plank/docklets/libdocklet-clippy.so
/usr/lib64/plank/docklets/libdocklet-clock.so
/usr/lib64/plank/docklets/libdocklet-cpumonitor.so
/usr/lib64/plank/docklets/libdocklet-desktop.so
/usr/lib64/plank/docklets/libdocklet-trash.so
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install plank-docklets
on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).