How To Install plank-docklets on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install plank-docklets in Fedora 36. plank-docklets is Docklets for plank

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/).