How To Install preferences-menus on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install preferences-menus in Fedora 36. preferences-menus is Categorized submenus for the Preferences menu

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install preferences-menus on Fedora 36.

What is preferences-menus

This package recreates the Preferences submenus that Fedora used to have by default in F10 and earlier.

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

Install preferences-menus 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 preferences-menus using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install preferences-menus

Install preferences-menus 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 preferences-menus using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install preferences-menus

How To Uninstall preferences-menus on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the preferences-menus package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove preferences-menus

preferences-menus Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/xdg/menus/preferences-merged/preferences-categories.menu

References

Summary

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