How To Install ricochet on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install ricochet in Fedora 36. ricochet is Anonymous peer-to-peer instant messaging

Introduction

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

What is ricochet

Ricochet is an experiment with a different kind of instant messaging that doesn’t trust anyone with your identity, your contact list, or your communications. * You can chat without exposing your identity (or IP address) to anyone * Nobody can discover who your contacts are or when you talk (meta-data-free!) * There are no servers to compromise or operators to intimidate for your information * It’s cross-platform and easy for non-technical users Warnings that application protocols and associated programs can be induced to reveal information about the initiator. Tor depends on Privoxy and similar protocol cleaners to solve this problem. The present network is very small – this further reduces the strength of the anonymity provided. Tor is not presently suitable for high-stakes anonymity.

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

Install ricochet 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 ricochet using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ricochet

Install ricochet 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 ricochet using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ricochet

How To Uninstall ricochet on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove ricochet

ricochet Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/ricochet
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/65
/usr/lib/.build-id/65/60dbfe1af41aa4384f7f59f3ff5d6badd8eca4
/usr/share/applications/ricochet.desktop
/usr/share/doc/ricochet
/usr/share/doc/ricochet/AUTHORS.md
/usr/share/doc/ricochet/README.md
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/ricochet.png
/usr/share/licenses/ricochet
/usr/share/licenses/ricochet/LICENSE

References

Summary

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