How To Install qiv on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install qiv in Fedora 36. qiv is Quick Image Viewer

Introduction

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

What is `qiv`

qiv is a very small and pretty fast gdk2/Imlib2 image viewer.

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

Install qiv 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 qiv using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install qiv

Install qiv 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 qiv using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install qiv

How To Uninstall qiv on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove qiv

qiv Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/qiv
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/15
/usr/lib/.build-id/15/44d2d84debc29371cdb05d51e5cd0a055bb2e3
/usr/share/applications/qiv.desktop
/usr/share/doc/qiv
/usr/share/doc/qiv/Changelog
/usr/share/doc/qiv/README
/usr/share/doc/qiv/README.COPYING
/usr/share/doc/qiv/README.TODO
/usr/share/doc/qiv/qiv-command.example
/usr/share/man/man1/qiv.1.gz
/usr/share/pixmaps/qiv.png

References

qiv website

Summary

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