How To Install profile-cleaner on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install profile-cleaner in Fedora 36. profile-cleaner is Script to vacuum and reindex sqlite databases used by Firefox and by Chrome

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install profile-cleaner on Fedora 36.

What is profile-cleaner

Use profile-cleaner to reduce the size of browser profiles by organizing their sqlite databases using sqlite3’s vacuum and reindex functions. The term “browser” is used loosely since profile-cleaner happily works on some email clients and newsreaders too.

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

Install profile-cleaner 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 profile-cleaner using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install profile-cleaner

Install profile-cleaner 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 profile-cleaner using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install profile-cleaner

How To Uninstall profile-cleaner on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the profile-cleaner package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove profile-cleaner

profile-cleaner Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/pc
/usr/bin/profile-cleaner
/usr/share/doc/profile-cleaner
/usr/share/doc/profile-cleaner/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/profile-cleaner
/usr/share/licenses/profile-cleaner/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/pc.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/profile-cleaner.1.gz
/usr/share/zsh
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_pc

References

Summary

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