How To Install ratpoison on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ratpoison on Fedora 36.
What is ratpoison
Ratpoison is a simple window manager that relies solely on keyboard input as opposed to keyboard and mouse input.
We can use yum or dnf to install ratpoison on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ratpoison.
Install ratpoison 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 ratpoison using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ratpoison
Install ratpoison 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 ratpoison using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install ratpoison
How To Uninstall ratpoison on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the ratpoison package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ratpoison
ratpoison Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/bin/ratpoison
/usr/bin/rpws
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/42
/usr/lib/.build-id/42/e797dc0fe07825b2cfc8c4b65b1311bfd0b65d
/usr/share/doc/ratpoison
/usr/share/doc/ratpoison/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/ratpoison/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/ratpoison/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/ratpoison/README
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/ratpoison.el
/usr/share/info/ratpoison.info.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ratpoison.1.gz
/usr/share/ratpoison
/usr/share/ratpoison/allwindows.sh
/usr/share/ratpoison/clickframe.pl
/usr/share/ratpoison/genrpbindings
/usr/share/ratpoison/ratdate.sh
/usr/share/ratpoison/rpshowall.sh
/usr/share/ratpoison/rpws
/usr/share/ratpoison/sloppy.c
/usr/share/ratpoison/split.sh
/usr/share/ratpoison/unrat.c
/usr/share/xsessions/ratpoison.desktop
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ratpoison on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).
